balance of payments

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Including the latter, the U.S. balance of payments deficit was a mere $53 billion in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

When those are factored in, the U.S. actual balance of payments is about 0.2% of the country’s gross domestic product, a figure the suit calls “essentially a rounding error.”

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

For Elliott, “Argentina needs a much lower exchange rate, much higher interest rates and a significant economic contraction” to stabilize the balance of payments.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 2025

If anything, Newsom may even have downplayed the size of California’s negative balance of payments with the federal government.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025

Eventually, though, Lefty began to understand the difference between five-card draw and seven-card stud, and gradually the balance of payments around the table began to shift.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides