Harvard Professor and former IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath has strongly rebuked the enduring economic narrative that the U.S. dollar’s status as a global reserve currency is to ...

Facts around the balance of imports and exports under President Trump and his tariffs can seem impossibly contradictory. For ...

For every $100 billion increase in the trade deficit since 1975, U.S. household wealth has increased by an average of $76,000 ...

Explore the balance of trade, including its definition, calculation method, and real-world examples, to better understand how ...

Through President Donald Trump’s first full 10 months in office, the cumulative U.S. trade deficit in goods and services was down 3.9% from the same period in 2024. His claim that he has “slashed our ...

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Data released Thursday by the Census Bureau showed the overall trade deficit with the world narrowed, the result of an expanding trade surplus in services. The trade deficit in goods was the highest ...

For the fifth straight year, the U.S. merchandise trade deficit with the world topped $1 trillion, according to Census Bureau data released Thursday, despite President Trump’s best efforts to bring it ...