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Global Trade Imbalances: Actual Problems, Unlikely Solutions

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Global Trade Imbalances: Actual Problems, Unlikely Solutions
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There’s certainly no economic reason why every national economy should expect to have a balance between its exports and imports. But it’s also true that sustained and large trade imbalances have sometimes been a forerunner of economic problems, and often been a forerunner of political problems. It’s also true that global trade imbalances have been higher in the last 15 years or so than in the pre-2000 period.



Here’s a snapshot of global trade balances over time from a

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