George W. Bush international

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George W. Bush, international economist: “There’s a trade deficit. That’s easy to resolve: People can buy more United States products if they’re worried about the trade deficit.”

From comments just now in the Oval Office with Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. And I’m told it was a bit difficult to tell whether or not he was joking.

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