On: U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues

[ReptileMan]

Then US will just start making the things themselves and not import. Unlike Japan - for USA imports are optional.

[otterley → ReptileMan]

Not so. We don’t have the capital investment or labor pool needed to replace China as a source of many goods, especially high tech goods, and it would take a very, very long time to catch up at this point, if we ever could.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-iphone-us-manuf...

Fantasies of USA autarky are just that.