Gold is best understood as a pricing of fiscal sustainability rather than a direct function of monetary variables. Click here ...

Looking at the average monthly deficit, January and February were both worse than average, whereas March was slightly better.

For every $100 billion increase in the trade deficit since 1975, U.S. household wealth has increased by an average of $76,000 ...

The United States trade deficit widened in February as a surge in imports offset record growth in exports, signaling that trade could continue to drag on economic growth in the first quarter.

One of the biggest challenges confronting the Federal Reserve is to ensure that large federal budget imbalances do not place undue pressure on it to keep interest rates artificially low and thereby ...