surpluses because they sell far more goods overseas than they buy. Managing the National Credit Card Are trade deficits a bad thing? Not necessarily. They can be positive if a country’s economy is...

surpluses because they sell far more goods overseas than they buy. Managing the National Credit Card Are trade deficits a bad thing? Not necessarily. They can be positive if a country’s economy is strong enough both to keep growing and to generate the jobs and incomes that permit its citizens to buy the best the world has to offer. That was certainly the case in the United States in the 1990s. Some experts, however, are alarmed at our trade