> There’s plenty of demand for manufactured goods. This is not true. The US is by far the largest consumer of final household goods at 18 trillion, the EU at 1

> There’s plenty of demand for manufactured goods. This is not true. The US is by far the largest consumer of final household goods at 18 trillion, the EU at 10 trillion, China at 6.7 trillion, Japan at 2 trillion, UK at 2 trillion, India at 2 trillion, the rest of insignificant. You would more of less need to combine every other significant market to match the loss in exports to the US market. And that won't happen, because of these markets are export driven economies, hence their economies are not structurally designed to suddenly take on mass deficits without mass unemployment coming at hand. Nobody wants to take on the world's surpluses as a deficit country save for the USA, which people in this thread seem quite ardent in convincing Americans to do so, even if they won't support similar policies in their own countries.