Sentences with phrase «then trade deficits»
If instead, the US trade deficit is driven by the need to expand the money supply worldwide, then the trade deficit will stay pretty much the same.
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Trump then said, according to The Post's reporting on the audio, that his aide returned and reported that the US had a $ 17 billion trade deficit with Canada when energy and timber sales were factored in.
Prior to 2009, Canada tended to record substantial trade surpluses, but since then we've recorded a trade deficit of $ 17.25 billion.
In fact, if investors are worried at all about the U.S. fiscal deficit, then if anything a cut in the deficit will cause even more money to enter the United States, and if the U.S. capital account surplus rises, then so must the U.S. trade deficit, which is the opposite of what Shultz and Feldstein claim.
In the second case, if protectionist measures disrupted China's capital exports, its capital deficit and trade surplus would then decline, as would the U.S. capital surplus and trade deficit.
Trump said on the recording that after Trudeau told him the U.S. does not have a trade deficit with Canada, he replied, «Wrong, Justin, you do,» then added, «I didn't even know... I had no idea.»
Except for a period in the early 1960s, when Robert Triffin explored what became known as the Triffin Dilemma, in which foreign hoarding of U.S. dollars was linked to persistent U.S. trade deficits, the relationship between the capital and current accounts seems since then to have mystified most economists, including those specializing in trade, even as U.S. trade deficits and foreign capital inflows soared, and as the growth in international capital flows, once consisting largely of trade finance, exploded relative to trade flows and relegated trade finance to minor importance.
When policymakers declare, for example, that they will implement policies that force the U.S. trade deficit to contract sharply, and then with the next breath promise to attract more foreign investment, we can immediately dismiss their promises not just as unlikely but as literally impossible.
If the Chinese surplus should rise against the U.S. after a decrease in the trade deficit with Mexico, the U.S. must then do the equivalent of a currency depreciation via a tariff against Chinese goods to force a rebalancing of trade which to me seems like a reasonable plan.
If it is much higher, then a contraction in the trade deficit can not occur without a contraction in net foreign investment, which would only increase the gap between desired and actual investment by reducing actual investment levels.
In 1971, Nixon ended the gold standard and since then the US has been consistently running a trade deficit.
You may inflate your way out of your debt problem but you're not going to grow your way out of the debt problem, so let's get behind that and if the dollar got too strong then the impotence from the white house would be to have more tariffs because they are hell bent on shrinking this trade deficit so when Kudlow discusses that, he ought to be very careful about where he is going because this white house, Peter Navarro and Wilbert Ross will push for a weaker dollar because a weaker dollar is Mnuchin and Wilbert Ross both said in Davos, is sending soldiers to the ramparts in the trade war that exists every day.
Certainly the Japanese, so its all being done so — with the — Donald Trump wanting to turn around the trade deficit, you can't help but say hey maybe they are actually onto something because they have an independent central bank well --(unintelligible) the independent central bank that goes upon its course based on what its seeing here you know based on domestic economic activity, while everybody else is setting it to international standards then tariffs become the — I guess the alternative especially when the feds is raising the interest rates and they're the only central bank really raising interest rates... I know... the bank of England went half a basis point, quarter basis point and they are project to go a quarter basis point tomorrow which we will see.
If they then hold those dollars as reserves, then that means they imported something into the US without exporting something from the US in trade, which creates a net import, aka, a «trade deficit».
The Greenback's rally was then sustained by the better - than - expected reading for ISM's non-manufacturing PMI (59.8 vs. 55.5 expected, 55.3 previous), as well exports rising to a 2 - and - 1/2 - year high, which resulted in a narrower - than - expected U.S. trade deficit -LRB-- $ 42.4 B vs. - $ 42.7 B expected, - $ 43.6 B previous), and hawkish rhetoric from a bunch of Fed officials.