If you’ve ever tried to change your weight, whether it’s shedding a few kilos or building some muscle, chances are you’ve come across the terms “calorie surplus” and “calorie deficit.” They sound ...

The IMF’s “message” is that the widening of the U.S. deficit and the Chinese surplus over the course of 2024 was unwelcome—it took both countries away from their estimated current account balances (in ...

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 ...

The current account measures how much a country earns and spends with the rest of the world. When earnings from exports, services, and remittances exceed spending on imports and payments abroad, it ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Demand for cobalt will rise faster than supply, allowing the market to reduce the 2024 surplus in coming years and swing to a deficit in the early 2030s, the Cobalt Institute said in ...

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

Minnesota’s projected budget surplus has grown to nearly $2.5 billion in the current two-year budget cycle, though a projected shortfall of almost $3 billion is expected in the following two years.

Los Angeles, Ca. Shipping containers are offloaded from the container ship APL Singapore onto Terminal Island at the busy Port of Los Angeles. (Photo by Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) ...

As President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package this week to help U.S. farmers hurt by tariffs, he placed responsibility for the U.S. agricultural trade deficit on former President ...