The major worry in the bond market isn't about a default where the government cannot pay its debts, he said. Rather, it's about supply and demand: A larger supply of Treasury debt tends to lead to a ...

President Donald Trump's second-term economic plan can be summed up in one word: tariffs. When his barrage of these import ...

Fox Business host Larry Kudlow pushed back Friday against the idea that trade deficits are inherently harmful. During an ...

The U.S.'s trade deficit for goods shrank substantially in April, as new tariffs weighed on imports. Goods imports fell by 20% to $276.1 billion, while exports rose 3.4% to $188.5 billion, the ...

The trade deficit in goods narrowed by 46% to $87.6 billion in April from a record $162.3 billion in March, according to the Commerce Department's advanced estimate released Friday. That's the ...

IT’S A FACT OF LIFE ... durable goods, for example, jumped 9.2% to $315.7 billion in March, Census Bureau data released last month shows.March's trade deficit surpasses the last monthly record ...

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 ...

When he introduced what he called “liberation day” he was promising massive tariff increases tied (completely illogically) to the trade deficits ... go down.). The fact that both the stock ...

Examples include a Nike shoe factory ... The flip side of a trade deficit is a capital account surplus. The fact that foreign investors are happy to bring in funds to finance whopping US trade ...

Calling it a record implies that the deficit is large and growing, which could seem scary. In fact, it is roughly half the size of its peak in 2005. Insofar as we see the trade deficit as a ...

For example, instead of importing ... of the Biden administration, agriculture trade moved into record-high deficits. But it ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.