“Since 2000, the U.S. trade deficit has doubled, from $370 billion to $677 trillion last year,” Ferry plans to say. “We’ve had trade deficits for 45 consecutive years, a world record…Over these 20 years, our growth rate in national income per person has been a paltry 1.18%, compared to the 3%-4% levels we saw before 1970.

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