Tim Baker at Deutsche Bank argues the US’s larger current account deficit relative to other major economies reflects an expensive dollar. But President Donald Trump’s crusade to weaken the dollar and ...

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, the federal deficit has declined by $516 billion on a trailing-12-month basis. Spending is basically flat, but revenue is up a remarkable 8.5 ...

The federal government recorded one of the largest budget deficits in U.S. history this year when fiscal year 2025 concluded. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected to record a ...

America is in the midst of a divisive argument regarding Donald Trump’s use of tariffs to reduce our trade deficit with other countries — the controversy began when the president first mentioned his ...

For decades, Trump has been arguing that trade deficits are bad. BUT - should we be eliminating trade deficits at all? Economist and Harvard professor Jason Furman says no. TRUMP: My old speeches - ...

President Donald Trump has spent his first few weeks in office rolling out his trade agenda, which has thus far focused on increasing tariffs. Part of that strategy is Trump's belief that tariffs will ...

Learn how fiscal policies like government spending and tax changes impact budget deficits. Understand their influence on economic stability and growth.

Worries about government deficits are making one of their periodic tours of Wall Street. Investors say the prospect of bigger budget imbalances in the second Trump administration is a factor behind ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sweeping new tariffs on imported goods on Wednesday -- upending global trade and sending markets into a tailspin-- he presented the move as a response to a ...

The United States has operated in a debt condition since its very beginning -- the Revolutionary War was fought in part on the back of money from domestic investors and the French government -- but ...