If trade balances were the true measure of economic health, the Great Depression of the 1930s should have been a boom — we ...

He has previously overseen the My Turn, Fact Check and News teams ... You can reach Shane by emailing [email protected] The U.S. trade deficit increased to a record high in March, as ...

I have had two takes on US President Donald Trump’s trade war in the past month. First, I pointed out that too many people accept the dubious claim that reducing the trade deficit will boost ...

The U.S. trade deficit soared to a monthly record of $140.5 billion in March, signaling a rush for imports from businesses ...

At this point, some readers are likely planning to send me annoyed messages via Bluesky, telling me that trade deficits don’t really matter that much. I will gladly concede the point. In fact ...

What Trump Said: “We were losing $2 trillion a year on trade.” The Facts: The US had a trade deficit with the rest of the world of $917.8 billion in 2024, according to the Bureau of Economic ...

The Trump administration has chosen the elimination of the U.S. trade deficit as its chief economic ... trade surplus in its services sector. In fact, in 2023, the U.S. imported about $750 billion ...

New research shows that rural America has untapped export potential. Taking advantage of it could be a more effective way to narrow the trade deficit than tariffs.

In fact, he lost the state in the ... tariff policy with misleading claims about global trade. He again inflated and mischaracterized trade deficits with Mexico and Canada, saying that the United ...