The U.S. imported $1.2 trillion more in goods in 2024 than it exported, a record annual deficit and a major economic irritant for President Trump. On Feb. 13, the president announced that his ...

A Stock Market Alarm Is Sounding for the Third Time in 20 Years. History Says This Will Happen Next.

Whether we’re talking about purchases by consumers or businesses – domestic or international -- every market transaction ...

like raising growth to 3 percent and eliminating the country’s trade deficit. The charts below show how key indicators evolved during former President Obama’s second term, and how they are ...

Trump wants to reduce the $1.2 trillion trade deficit, so he’s putting tariffs on popular imported goods from smartphones to ...

Learn more about how Trump's proposed tariffs against Mexico, China and Canada could impact trade, shipping, imports, prices ...

The next big and related mistake about trade deficits is that they reduce U.S. economic growth. The first chart above should raise doubts about this conclusion, yet we hear it constantly in the ...

first weeks of his second term in office. Trade deficits. Underpinning President Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff-led trade wars with Colombia, with Canada, with Mexico, with China ...

Among the most common economic justifications for tariffs today is that they’re needed to shrink a U.S. trade deficit that has long cost us jobs and dragged down economic growth. On both the ...