The deficit in February remained much larger than the $135.5 billion trade gap forecast by Wall Street economists polled by ...

The US merchandise-trade deficit narrowed in February for the first time in four months on stronger exports, though high ...

Among the most common economic justifications for tariffs today is that they’re needed to shrink a U.S. trade deficit that ... GDP = C + I + G + (X − M) Where C is consumption, I is investment ...

Economic data released Thursday morning showed a marginal upward revision to U.S. gross domestic product growth for the ...

It is common in current US political discourse to hear it asserted, as an incontrovertible truth, that the US economy is ...

The Commerce Department reported a record $918.4 billion U.S. trade deficit in 2024. President Trump believes a trade deficit is harmful to the American economy because it signifies that the U.S ...

In their Feb. 21 op-ed “Trump’s Myth of the Trade Deficit,” Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux correctly note that when American demand for investment exceeds domestic savings, trade deficits ...

I’m sure that happens ... the last time the US ran a trade surplus (i.e., exports exceeding imports) was 1975; and while we’ve had deficits since then, over the last 15 years or so, the ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened sharply in January, most likely as businesses front-loaded imports ahead of tariffs, potentially positioning trade to be a ...

Economists have long understood that higher levies on imports do not reduce a nation’s trade deficit, and there is evidence they may actually increase it. Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg Opinion ...