We’ve looked at how the U.S. runs on foreign capital to balance its trade deficit, and how countries like Germany and Japan manage persistent surpluses by investing abroad.Now let’s look…

In our last post, we talked about how trade deficits are balanced by investment inflows—and how trying to “fix” a deficit without understanding that balance can backfire.Now let’s look at…

We often hear politicians talk about fixing the trade deficit—usually by trying to export more and import less. It sounds simple enough, right? The United States buys too much from…