Toys R Us contributes to trade deficit...

...by increasing our capital account surplus with China.

(After I started making this blog post it occurred to me that a pure transfer of a debt instrument might not affect the trade deficit, but I don't want to think about it now and possibly ruin my joke.)

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  1. Affected by to whom instrument transferred, yes?

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