No heavily indebted country with a trade deficit has an alternative to austerity and inflation.
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This would show up as a trade deficit, but it also exposes foreigners to our inflation.
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This would leave a trade deficit with Japan but potentially balance American trade overall.
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The U.S. has a trade deficit with all of its top 5 oil producing trading partners.
We are running a trade deficit of over half a trillion dollars per year to import oil.
If the United States competed better on tax policy, we might have much less of a trade deficit.
Since 1607, North America has run a trade deficit with the rest of the world for approximately 350 years.
China is just one of 90 countries with which the United States runs a trade deficit, Roach points out.
There is no point growing GDP by 3% if you ship 3% of GDP abroad via a trade deficit.
They actually ran a trade deficit for the first two months of 2012 signaling a real slowdown in exports.
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This causes a trade deficit, even though it is entirely intra-firm trade.
Worrying about a trade deficit, or a trade surplus, is largely useless.
It's measured by a trade deficit where as much as 20 percent of what we spend on imports is spent on oil.
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Such a country can run a trade deficit, yet still grow wealthier.
So too is the record amount of foreign capital flowing into the country and a trade deficit that's tripled in the last year.
Bottom line: you can run a trade deficit, reduce government debt, and reduce private debt, but not all three at the same time.
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As seen through the foreign currency exchange, the American still wants a trade deficit for the same reasons she did before in the bartering system.
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The previously strong yen had contributed to Japan experiencing a trade deficit - importing more than it exports - since 2011, following decades of surpluses.
The country actually has a trade deficit on technology items.
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Should we lament a trade deficit in iPhones or any other products assembled abroad, particularly when those products comprise U.S. value-added and support high-paying U.S. jobs?
The Japanese could trade the dollars on the foreign exchange to receive yen from any country that has a trade deficit with America and wants more dollars to buy American goods.
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The problem is not so much the budget deficit (though Greece was certainly profligate) as the net foreign borrowing by all actors, public and private (say to finance a trade deficit).
While Andy Rothman , China Macro Strategist for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, does not expect China to run a trade deficit for the full year, he does not expect the country to run a large trade surplus either.
Put aside the meaninglessness of the trade balance as a measure of economic health or sickness--the U.S., after all, has had a trade deficit with the rest of the world for 350 years out of the last 400.
IMF's analysis, is not due to shifts in domestic spending, but to changes in the manufacturing trade of these countries: America has had a widening trade deficit over much of that period, Japan a widening surplus.
However, this capital surplus does not count in the balance of trade and leaves a massive trade deficit with Wakanda.
Inventories gained 2% in the quarter, boosted by a wider trade deficit, which means that there are plenty of goods to sell to a very hesitant consumer.
Encouraging economic data, showing increased consumer confidence and a narrowing trade deficit, were released on Wednesday.
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