In 2024, trade between the Central African Republic (CAR) and the U.S. totaled $36.5 million. Yet, CAR's exports to America were a paltry $1.4 million, leaving a $33.6 million deficit. If CAR were to apply the
United Kingdom: $740.2 billion Luxembourg: $409.9 billion Cayman Islands: $404.5 billion Belgium: $377.7 billion Canada: $350.8 billion » MORE: What is the trade deficit and why is Trump focused on it? How does the government pay off its debt? The government doesn’t completely pay off...
The Silk Road spirit is consistent with the ideal of “all states joining together in harmony and peace” long upheld by the Chinese nation, with the Chinese people’s principles of amity, good neighborliness and “helping others to succeed while seeking our own success”, and with the call ...
A softer dollar is likely to help President Trump’s efforts to cut the US’ large trade deficit. In theory, a more moderately valued US dollar would help rebalance the country’s trade balance by making imports more expensive and exports more competitive. The internationally orchestrated ...
A recession is possible in the near future. In March 2025, J.P. Morgan’s chief global economist put the risk of a recession in the United States at 40 percent, up from 30 percent at the beginning of the year. The chief economist at Moody’s Analytics also increased the probability, ...
pollutionandclimate change.Several of Kennedy's ideas would require presidential or congressional action to implement, though it is possible that they could be supercharged by emergency powers."I'm going to urge President Trump on day one to do the same thing they did in COVID, which is to ...
One of the biggest trade agreements the U.S. has is the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). This went into effect under Trump 1.0 in July 2020. The agreement is set to expire in 2026, and Trump 2.0 wants the USMCA to be the “fairest, most balanced and beneficial trade agre...
The 18-30 foot-high steel fence is the most visible example of Trump’s reshaping of the U.S. immigration system. He set up a multitude of new bureaucratic hurdles for immigrants seeking to enter or stay in the United States. Many of the measures were challenged in court and some were ...
The U.S. Census, who measures and reports on poverty, states:If a family’s pre-tax income is less than the dollar value of their threshold, that family and every member are considered to be in poverty.So, in the eyes of the Census, “poverty” is pre-tax income (before any ...
He did not, however, rule out the use of force in trying to claim Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, claiming it was in the United States’ national security interests to try and make the Arctic island a part of the country. Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., iscurrently in ...