The trade deficit (total and ex-oil) widens again.
Category Archives: deficits
The 2005q4 GDP report and the trade balance
Little sign of the reversal in the trade deficit.
Fiscal Exposure and Medicare Part D
Even if the new Medicare prescription drug plan’s implementation improves, that’s just the beginning of our problems.
Long term prospects for U.S. net exports in perspective
Does the cross-border fragmentation of production mean that measured trade flows are irrelevant?
Trade figures for November
How good is the news, really?
Hazards of partial reading and partial equilibrium analysis
For some people, the answer to every problem is a tax cut
Current Account figures for 2005q3
Reading behind the numbers
Past and incipient expenditures for operations in Iraq
Larry Lindsey was right. And wrong.
What are prospects for Federal debt/GDP?
Did recent surge in tax revenues signal a meaningful improvement in fiscal prospects?
Facing the 900-pound gorilla
Sooner or later we have to do something about Medicare. Why not sooner?