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  The US trade deficit in May Exports fell 3.2%. Imports rose 3.3% https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-07/us-trade-deficit-widens-to-biggest-in-more-than-a-year US Trade deficit https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/us-trade-deficit.html

 “Again? Didn’t we just have this debate?” This is how the opening chapter of a collection of essays published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research , on “The New Global Imbalances” , starts.  Yes, we did. We did so in the 1980s, in the 2000s and now, once again, in the 2020s. Once roughly every 20 years, it appears, the issue comes to the fore. The view of many economists today is that if a crisis is going to strike, it is likely to be triggered in the US. So, how similar are today’s conditions to those of two decades ago? What might go wrong? What should be done? How might today’s situation end? Martin Wolf Financial Times 6 May 2026 https://www.ft.com/content/72ab51ed-8dcc-46c5-8457-6944d98bf280?syn-25a6b1a6=1 US trade deficit - In March - $60 billion https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2026/05/us-trade-deficit-in-march-60-billion.html America’s investment position with the rest of the world Is the world running away from American assets? Gillian Tett 20 February 2026 ht...

In March, U.S. imports totaled $381 billion. Exports were $321 billion. That yielded a trade deficit of $60 billion, 555 miljarder kr, i mars, en siffra lätt att komma ihåg. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-05-05-2026/card/trade-deficit-grew-in-march-cqboOhTySer7GOiaOsmt U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, March 2026 https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/us-international-trade-goods-and-services-march-2026 US Trade deficit https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/us-trade-deficit.html  

   USA Handelsunderskott maj 2025 - $71.5 billion Year-to-date deficit increased $175.0 billion, or 50.4 percent https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/usa-handelsunderskott-maj-2025-715.html USA:s handelsunderskott  april https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/06/usas-handelsunderskott-rasar.html   The Problem Trump Is Seeking to Tackle Is Very Real https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-problem-trump-is-seeking-to-tackle.html USD och handelsunderskottet https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/usd-och-handelsunderskottet.html Concerns that the U.S. trade deficit will drag down the dollar are overdone https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/06/concerns-that-us-trade-deficit-will.html

US Trade Deficit second-largest in data back to 1960 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/us-trade-gap-ballooned-ahead-of-trump-term-tariff-promises 2024 the US  trade deficit increased to $918 billion;  9.997 miljarder kronor https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/for-year-2024-us-trade-deficit.html USA stadiga underskott i över fyra decennier har inte hindrat amerikansk BNP-utveckling att sopa banan  med exempelvis Japan, som visat handelsöverskott sedan 1981, och Tyskland, med handelsöverskott varje år sedan 2002. Nils Åkesson DI 26 mars 2025 https://www.di.se/analys/darfor-har-trump-fel/ RE: Kan denne duktige skribent verkligen ha kunnat bortse från den självklara förklaringen; hög inhemsk efterfrågan, QE och budgetunderskott, leder till fart i ekonomin, men underskott i handelsbalansen. Tvärtom i Tyskland, som till helt nyligen hade ett grundlagsfäst överskottsmål.  Rolfs länktips 23 april 2025 We got a problem... Varför gör Trump som  han ...