As a small-business owner, it is important to understand the opportunities presented by the market. Different countries will offer different opportunities. An easy way of finding opportunities is by ...

The U.S. deficit with its global trading partners nearly doubled in November as the shortfall with the European Union swelled.

President Donald Trump has long sought to tackle the country's overall trade deficit. The combined goods and services trade deficit hit $918.4 billion in 2024, a big increase from 2023. There hasn't ...

If President Trump were truly interested in eliminating the trade deficit, he could easily do so by balancing the federal government’s budget. Earlier this month, we learned that the U.S. trade ...

The tax reform bills that have now passed both the House and and Senate look to have more tax cuts than base-broadening reforms, at least in the next few years. The main impact of tax reform on the ...

The trade war continues to rage in the shade of the headline-grabbing supply chain disruptions. The tariffs are still in place and are unlikely to go anywhere despite the change of administration in ...

President Trump loves talking about the trade balance. So do I, though, I hope, in a somewhat different way. In fact, I spent the mid-2000s arguing that the U.S. trade deficit was too large, and that ...

International trade is always balanced. Trade deficits are imbalances in only a single part of the total balance of international payments. Any trade deficit is offset by surpluses in other parts of ...