Triffin's Dilemma means maintaining reserve currency status requires running persistent trade deficits to supply the world with dollars, but this same mechanism over decades hollows out the domestic industrial base, creating political pressure to address trade imbalances.
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“if you want to fix the trade deficit... it comes with trade-offs. Uh, some of the benefits that that you know that we enjoy at the cost of the trade deficit.”
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