You are joking, right? You can find some years where the US trade deficit isn't the absolute highest as a percentage of GDP, particularly if you start throwing in small island economies like New Zealand into the mix, but you will not find any other nation whose balance of current accounts is anywhere as close to the size of the U.S.'s in terms of GDP share.
The USA isn't even that high...middle of the pack. Yes, the USA has the highest GDP of any other nation on earth, but Canada is no slouch either, it almost has an economy as large as California.
You need to logically connect this statement to the argument I am making rather than just changing the subject to something irrelevant.
You stated that the USA cannot run a trade deficit forever, which I guess is because you assumed the economy must be a closed system that would simply deplete itself eventually. That isn't true. I'm not seeing a very well formed argument to understand here, just more of the same isolationism movement we've been hearing about since the 1930s.
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The USA isn't even that high...middle of the pack. Yes, the USA has the highest GDP of any other nation on earth, but Canada is no slouch either, it almost has an economy as large as California.
You stated that the USA cannot run a trade deficit forever, which I guess is because you assumed the economy must be a closed system that would simply deplete itself eventually. That isn't true. I'm not seeing a very well formed argument to understand here, just more of the same isolationism movement we've been hearing about since the 1930s.