Calls to weaken the U.S. dollar have resurfaced in policy debates, framed to boost exports and reduce the so-called “trade deficit.” President Trump was reported as saying in a recent ...

Free traders love quoting Adam Smith’s dictum that “What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” And rightly so. If it’s inefficient for a ...

Fine points of the law are likely to dominate legal arguments in the case before the Supreme Court challenging the Trump administration’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ...

IMF data for 2025 shows China as the world’s largest surplus economy. Its surplus jumped from $293 billion in 2015 to $641 ...

Pakistan has booked over $19 billion trade deficit during the first half of the current fiscal year as exports further plunged and imports increased faster than projections on the back of trade ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Marc L. Busch is the Karl F. Landegger professor of international business diplomacy at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown ...

Malawi's economy is bleeding through trade, with new data showing that the country is buying far more from the rest of the world than it is selling--an imbalance that is worsening pressure on prices, ...

The U.S. trade deficit fell by nearly 24% in August as President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs pushed imports lower. In a report delayed for more than seven weeks by the federal government ...