china, the trade deficit for last year, $375 billion in goods and services. canada, $18 billion. mexico, $71 billion. japan, $69 billion. germany, $65 billion. in deficits. the wall street journal and the free trader friends, that doesn t matter. that doesn t matter. but then they wonder why people turned out to vote for trump. manufacturing jobs, blue collar jobs, used to have 18 of the 20 steel manufacturers in the world, now we have two. and none of the steel companies in the top ten today, larry. look, we actually run a surplus all in with canada. laura: you re doing the timber thing, right? the services thing. laura: goods and services, it s $18 billion. the issue here, i don t really think it s trade deficit, that s not my favorite metric, the issue here is tariffs and non-tariff barriers. so they won t let us sell to
program for women and infants and children could be affected if the shutdown lasts more than a week. the fda would not be able to update mislabelled medication and they can t perform food inspections. that is a serious matter. and the stock market, it is running pretty actively. today it is having a mixed day. but the president keeps pointing to it. a shutdown would close the commerce and labor department. those departments send out economic data that investors and economists use to tell you where things are. they could be left in the dark and that could have an affect on the president s favorite metric. i do want to remind everybody, in 2013 the cost of that government shutdown was thought to be about $23 or $24 billion. so there is a real impact. but i want to talk more about the potential impact of this shutdown that is under nine hours away. i want to bring in seth harris. a former acting u.s. labor secretary under president obama. and before we get to the details, this business ab
the supplemental nutrition program, snap for infants ali velshi, why is there a rat on the screen? that s what they use for tests. i said animals generally. some are rodents. the men, women and children at nutritional risk. the food inspections couldn t be performed. could be serious because of outbreaks. and the stock market run the president is talking about, this is a trick y one. it d close the departments that have data that investors and economists use. could be left in the dark. we re not sure what the tangible effect is going to be on the president s favorite metric, the stock market. what we ve seen is a very small negative effect on stocks with people saying, hey, maybe there