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April 3, 2026 Exploring Finance

TTM Trade Deficit Collapses to pre-2001 Levels Relative to GDP

The Trade Deficit is one of the two components of the ‘twin deficits’; the other being the federal budget deficit. The trade deficit used to be a number that received a ton of attention in the 1980s and 1990s because it was determined to be a strong gauge of the strength and weakness in the […]