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A tale of two deficits

A tale of two deficits

Marketplace vor 3 Wochen

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Despite Trump’s best efforts (a flurry of loosely targeted
tariffs), the U.S. trade deficit is widening. But why is it
widening? And what does it all have to do with foreign investment
in government debt and the strength of the U.S. dollar? We’ll
explain. Plus: Electric truck sales rev up amid record-high
diesel prices, a 19th-century novelist popularized economic
theory for her broad audience, and investors prep for upcoming
Treasury auctions.

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The Regency-era novelist who popularized economics through
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