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Unemployment and trade
The French unemployment rate is about 9.7% (from September 2010) and the US is at 9.6% (as of today).
Trade statistics are worth spending more time analyzing. What I would like to come up with is a really good sense of exactly what specific products and services "made in the USA" and "made in France" are traveling to the other country. Start withthe totals and then break it down in as detailed fashion as possible. Our countries have much in common in every respect, but my sense, for example, is that there are far fewer food items imported or at least sold as imported from the US in France than the other way around. But that is a thesis to be tested, and it requires sorting out things like a box of Kellogg's cereal. That actually is made in France for the French market, I believe, and so is really a French product with a US name. We can count that separately, I think.
Trade statistics are worth spending more time analyzing. What I would like to come up with is a really good sense of exactly what specific products and services "made in the USA" and "made in France" are traveling to the other country. Start withthe totals and then break it down in as detailed fashion as possible. Our countries have much in common in every respect, but my sense, for example, is that there are far fewer food items imported or at least sold as imported from the US in France than the other way around. But that is a thesis to be tested, and it requires sorting out things like a box of Kellogg's cereal. That actually is made in France for the French market, I believe, and so is really a French product with a US name. We can count that separately, I think.
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