around here ten minutes could make all of the difference. however exactly. if gary cohn was saying they are lying to the president, there is one thing that the president has been saying, i don t know who whispered this in his ear, but since we have trade deficits with everybody and we don t but let s say that you took the president at his word, since we have trade deficits with everyone, a trade war doesn t hurt us. it hurts them. that is why it is a good thing. that is just nonsense. and history is unambiguous on this. one of the reasons that the g-20, the 19 yurcountries plus european union gathered in november of 2008 and explicitly said let s avoid protectionist policies as a collective global effort to avoid the mistakes of the great depression and trade wars are devastating. now hopefully we won t get there and right now we re talking about corrosive not cataclysmic policies but they are like that nuance of a leaky pipe. they are a nuisance until it