Is the Trade Deficit an Indirect Result of Sex Addiction?

November 20, 2007 | Filed Under Small Talk 

Wouldn’t surprise me!   Here’s the idea

Why is there a $700 billion trade deficit? Because Americans want to buy things they can’t afford. Why do they want to buy things they can’t afford? To pretend to be richer than they are. Why do they want to appear richer than they are? Because it gives them higher social status. Why do they want higher social status? So they will have better access to the opposite sex.

From Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics

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