{"id":516,"date":"2005-04-14T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=516"},"modified":"2006-10-08T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T11:43:39","slug":"534-of-malaysia-and-the-american-trade-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"[514] Of Malaysia and the American trade deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know, Malaysia ranked 7th as countries that contribute to the American $60 billion trade deficit?<\/p>\n<p>The first place is China&#8217;s of course, contributing half of the deficit &#8211; $30 billion. Malaysia is attributed with almost $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see how the dots connect. And I wonder, does Malaysia have a trade deficit? I have to look that up.<\/p>\n<p>I do know however, Malaysia has an huge budget deficit to GDP ratio; if I recall correctly, larger than the US. This is one reason why I find Malaysia is weird &#8211; in the US, the deficit is giving everybody headache; in Malaysia, almost nobody gives a damn.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because, the people in Malaysia care more for the establishment of moral police rather than maintaining and improving sound economic performance. Given that, it&#8217;s surprising to see Malaysia as one of the tiger economies.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; to all Liverpool fans, aww, shut up and quit telling me that you guys are in the semifinal. Let me be with Ajax&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As such, w00t! Feyenoord lost 1-4 to Den Bosch. Pity Ruud Gullit but w00t! Ajax stays third and is making ground for second place!<\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; who am I kidding. Malaysia is an export-oriented country. Trade deficit. LOL!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know, Malaysia ranked 7th as countries that contribute to the American $60 billion trade deficit? The first place is China&#8217;s of course, contributing half of the deficit &#8211; $30 billion. Malaysia is attributed with almost $3 billion. It&#8217;s interesting to see how the dots connect. And I wonder, does Malaysia have a trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}