Bro I’m here fighting for my life trying to convince people that a trade deficit financed by asset sales is a good thing. I meant a net drag on GDP.

Please chill.

I don't think I'm the one who needs to chill, bro.

It was a joke?

I'm aware I'm not 'fighting for my life'

And I'm likewise aware that a centuries-old English monarch didn't call me to discuss the economic theories of her time (though it'd be pretty cool to see how accurately or inaccurately we've reconstructed Elizabethan-era English pronunciations).

Yeah so I responded to your joke with a joke then things got all serious because you didn't take it as a joke.

And here we are, two nerds online.

> because you didn't take it as a joke

You sure? :)

> And here we are, two nerds online.

Well yeah, that's kind of a given.