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A current account deficit is not always a problem. The Pitchford thesis states that a current account deficit does not matter if it is driven by the private sector. It is also known as the "consenting adults" view of the current account, as it holds that deficits are not a problem if they result from private sector agents engaging in mutually ...
A turning point was the 1997 Asian financial crisis, where unsympathetic responses by western powers caused policy makers in emerging economies to re-assess the wisdom of relying on the free market; by 1999 the developing world as a whole stopped running current account deficits [16] while the U.S. current account deficit began to rise sharply.
The current account balance is one of two major measures of a country's foreign trade (the other being the net capital outflow). A current account surplus indicates that the value of a country's net foreign assets (i.e. assets less liabilities) grew over the period in question, and a current account deficit indicates that it shrank.
The U.S. current account aims to measure the nation's international trade balance, and it considers all goods, services and unilateral transfers each quarter. Today's report was a first-quarter ...
The U.S. current account deficit surged to a 15-year high in the third quarter amid a record increase in imports as businesses rushed to replenish depleted inventories to meet strong demand. The ...
Therefore, with an additional $400 billion deficit, the trade deficit would, according to the theory, be increased by some $200 billion. "Double deficit" in the USA. Fiscal balance (black) and current account balance (red). Source: ameco. [4] An economy is deemed to have a double deficit if it has a current account deficit and a fiscal deficit ...
Ben Margot/AP By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON -- The U.S. current account deficit tumbled to a 14-year low in the fourth quarter as exports touched a record high, a government report showed Wednesday.
Traditional balance-of-payments accounting is that the change in the net foreign asset position equals the current account balance. In other words, if a country runs a $700 billion current account deficit, it has to borrow exactly $700 billion from abroad to finance the deficit and therefore, the country's net foreign asset position falls by $700 billion.