The United States swung to a $1.45 billion goods trade surplus with Nigeria in the first ten months of 2025, reversing a ...

The US trade deficit ballooned to $56.8 billion in November 2025, crushing economists’ forecasts of $43.4 billion and nearly ...

Zooming out and looking over the history of the budget back to 2016 shows a more complete picture. The change since Covid is ...

The U.S. government recorded a surplus in June, bolstered by increased tariff collections, the Treasury Department has reported. The surplus amounted to a little more than $27 billion, a stark ...

In recent speeches and media scrums, President Donald Trump has lauded the federal budget surplus for the month of June, claiming the surplus had not happened in “many, many years” or “decades.” To be ...

THERE APPEARS to be a broad consensus across the different sectors of our society that fiscal deficits are to be avoided.