The Trump admin and critics alike seem unaware of a key mechanism that governs the magnitude of a trade balance.

President Donald Trump is a vocal opponent of the U.S. trade deficit and he believes tariffs are the method to reducing it; ...

Increasing tariffs may be an attempt to 'solve' the problem of persistent trade deficits. Are they even a problem that needs ...

Are you wondering what trade deficits are and what all the hoopla is about regarding President Donald Trump's trade war? Here are some terms and facts to help you understand. A trade imbalance is ...

Donald Trump has been fixated on the trade deficit recently. He keeps bringing it up to rationalize the sweeping tariffs he wants to impose on basically the entire world. But does the president ...

My previous article focused on the mechanisms of tariffs themselves, so this one will be more focused on trade deficits/surpluses as that is the stated impetus for the tariffs. A trade deficit ...

The faster the U.S. economy grows, the more imports Americans tend to buy and the wider trade deficits tend to get.

Some factors that affect the trade deficit are out of the president’s control, such as consumer demand. Rollins’ statement ...

The problem, he says, is that the US has trade deficits with other countries. He believes that, if we buy more from a country than they buy from us, the other country is “beating” us.