By Andrew Moran President Donald Trump’s tariffs helped shrink the U.S. trade deficit to its lowest monthly level in more than five years, according to new data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Dec. 11. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit narrowed 10.9 percent in September to $52.8 billion—the lowest monthly deficit […]
Tag: Consumer Price Index (CPI)
A consumer price index is a price index, the price of a weighted average market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households.
