The U.S. trade deficit is surging despite Trump tariffs. See what it could mean for inflation, prices, jobs and your ...

The U.S. trade deficit came in at $88.60 billion in the latest reporting period, slightly below market expectations but wider than the previous reading. Economists had forecast a deficit of $89.40 ...

The US trade deficit narrowed slightly in April. Both imports and exports rose, but a jump in oil trading led the overall gap to end the month at $55.9 billion, down from $56.6 billion in March.

The trade deficit narrowed to $101.5B as imports fell, but domestic factories haven't filled the gap and consumers are paying the price. Nucor's net income surged 92% and stock climbed 72% in one year ...

US President Donald Trump has escalated his pressure campaign against the Federal Reserve, threatening to halt trade with countries running trade deficits with the United States unless the central ...

The U.S. fiscal trajectory is unsustainable, with debt-to-GDP projected to reach 123% by 2036 and 251% within 30 years. Recent fiscal policies, notably the OBBBA and tariffs, expand the deficit; GAO ...

The Trump administration’s aggressive and escalating tariffs on foreign imports haven’t narrowed the United States’ trade gap with other countries. In fact, import and export data from the U.S. Census ...

We’ve heard for years now from Donald Trump about how China has perpetrated one of the “greatest thefts in the history of the world” when it comes to trade with the U.S. His latest Tweets today (above ...

In a Forbes article today (“Donald Trump’s Trade Policies: Blessing Or Curse?“) Forbes contributor Stuart Anderson features comments from Mercatus Center Senior Fellow Dan Griswold and me as he tries ...

President Donald Trump has put trade policy at the center of his agenda. A case in point is the revised trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, announced on Monday. Yet it is hard to be sanguine about ...