Either the Chinese goods they do buy are more expensive or the not-Chinese goods they buy instead are more expensive because of the absence of the cheap Chinese goods.

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Maybe we couldn't buy many luxury goods, but food was cheap and no one went hungry.

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If savers treated financial assets as they do other goods, they would sell them when they are expensive and buy them when they are cheap.

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