Wednesday, February 5, 2025

US Trade Balance by Year 2-6-25

The US Trade Deficit has increased from $109,339.1 million in 1989 to $1,074,513.1 million in 2024. That 10-fold increase took the US Trade Deficit from $109.339 Billion to $1.074 Trillion. 

The “Global Scam” began in 1989, when GHW Bush signed on to UN Agenda 21, based on the “Global Warming Scam” that was renamed the Climate Change Hoax. In the US, the Bill came due on Lyndon Johnson’s failed Vietnam War, his “War on Poverty and creation of Medicare and Medicaid. The Saudis cut oil production, reducing supply to double Regular Gas Prices in the 1970s.

US auto manufacturers doubled new car prices in 1977.  US companies were off-shoring their manufacturing to countries with lower wages and no regulations.

The development of the Integrated Circuit by Texas Instruments in 1958 introduced a revolution in electronics that lead to the PC, Automation and the evolution of telephones from analog by wire to cellular by wireless radio frequency. The PC. This offered a good economy for jobs in the 1980s.

In the 1990s, US electronics was looking overseas. Bill Clinton agreed to off-shore US jobs and US companies were eager to comply to keep their profit margins.

The U.S. national debt from 1989 to 2024 increased from $2.857 trillion to $35.46 trillion. The debt-to-GDP ratio also increased, from 66.1% in 1989–1993 to 123% in 2024. 

In 2000, GW Bush entered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and increased the US National Debt from $5 trillion to

Year     $ Trade Deficit   National Debt

2024   - 1,074,513.1       $35.46 trillion    J Biden

2023   - 1,062,111.0       $33.1 trillion

2022   - 1,173,418.8       $30.928 trillion

2021   - 1.070,771.8       $28.429 trillion   J Biden

2020   - 901,489.8          $26.945 trillion

2019   - 845,759.2          $22.719 trillion

2018   - 870,358.4          $21.5 trillion

2017   - 792,395.9          $20.2 trillion      D Trump

2016   - 735,326.0          $19.573 trillion

2015   - 745,483.0          $22.5 trillion

2014   - 734,482.3          $17.8 trillion

2013   - 689,469.9          $16.738 trillion

2012   - 730,446.3          $16.066 trillion

2011   - 725,447.0          $14.790 trillion

2010   - 635,365.0          $13.562 trillion

2009   - 503,583.0          $11.910 trillion   B Obama

2008   - 816,200.0          $10.025 trillion  

2007   - 808,765.0          $9.008 trillion

2006   - 827,970.0          $8.507 trillion

2005   - 772,374.2          $7.933 trillion

2004   - 654,828.5          $7.379 trillion

2003   - 532,350.0          $6.783 trillion

2002   - 468,262.0          $6.228 trillion

2001   - 411,899.0          $5.807 trillion

2000   - 436,103.0          $4.674 trillion    GW Bush

1999   - 328,820.0          $5.656 trillion

1998   - 229,759.0          $5.526 trillion

1997   - 180,522.0          $5.413 trillion

1996   - 170,213.0          $5.225 trillion

1995   - 158,801.0          $4.974 trillion

1994   - 150,627.0          $4.693 trillion

1993   - 115,568.0          $4.411 trillion

1992   - 84,500.9           $4.065 trillion

1991   - 66,249.8           $3.665 trillion

1990   -101,029.1          $3.233 trillion   B Clinton

1989   -109,399.1          $2.857 trillion   GHW Bush

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c0004.html

https://www.investopedia.com/us-national-debt-by-year-7499291

GW Bush inherited a national debt of $4.674 trillion and took it to $10.025 trillion. Bush added 5.351 trillion to the Debt with wars and “nation-building” in Afghanistan and Iraq. It failed.

B Obama inherited a national debt of $10.025 trillion and took it to $19.573 trillion. Obama added $9.548 trillion with Climate Change.

D Trump inherited a national debt of $19.573 and took it to $26.945 trillion. Trump added $7.37 trillion to the Debt with COVID.

Trump lowered taxes, closed the Border and raised US household incomes by $6000 per year.

J Biden inherited a national debt of $26.945 and took it to $35.46 trillion. Biden added $8.515 trillion to the Debt with Climate Change, WOKE policies, 30% Inflation, Open Borders and wars in Ukraine and Israel. All were unnecessary and preventable.

D Trump inherited a national debt of $35.46 trillion and is working to cut federal spending by $2 trillion per year. Trump has replaced War with total economic isolation of “bad actors”.

Comments

Our current economic decline began when GHW Bush signed on the UN Agenda 21 in 1989.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

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