[cripplecreek]

The same way we’ve always done it. Equal goods and services we provide for equal goods and services other nations can provide.

Any attempt to overcomplicate it is an attempt to hide something.

[ExpatGator]

Any attempt to regulate and control trade, as in “equalize” it, creates non-free trade.

I hide nothing, as I am a complete free-trader. Anti free traders use trade deficits as proof that we are “losing” in trade, when it is in reality proof that we are more successful and therefore have more to spend.

I have customers who come into my gunshop who sell me more firearms than they buy. Should I consider “equalizing” this relationship even though I’m coming out ahead already? Have you read anything by Von Mises, Bastiat, Hayek or any other sane economist?

[LowCountryJoe]

The same way we’ve always done it. Equal goods and services we provide for equal goods and services other nations can provide. Any attempt to overcomplicate it is an attempt to hide something.

But that's already the case. The only differnce is is that the 'goods' many foreigners want from the United States in return for the goods that they export to us are securities that trade in financial markets. Or is that too complicated to understand?