France opens debate on its 2027 budget as high deficits, rising debt and student protests intensify pressure on lawmakers.

The chart above shows the annual US trade deficit (inverted, right scale, data here) and the annual dollar value of US household net worth (left scale, data here), from 1970 to 2017. As can be seen in ...

The U.S. deficit with its global trading partners nearly doubled in November as the shortfall with the European Union swelled. Following a month where the trade deficit hit its lowest level since ...

A New York Times chart showing the stark impact President Donald Trump's administration has had on the federal deficit made the rounds on social media Wednesday, prompting a mix of alarm and mockery, ...

A few weeks ago I wrote an article about tariffs, discussing the economic principles behind them. That article was a response to what I viewed as extreme bias in the media on how tariffs were ...