Current accounts are often the preferred bank account for salaried professionals to receive monthly wages. They are also used by self-employed individuals and entrepreneurs because they need to ...

Having a business involves dealing with money daily, paying suppliers, getting payments from customers, dealing with salaries, and monitoring costs. To make all this convenient, businesses use a ...

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The U.S. Current Account deficit narrowed 43% to -$251.3B in Q2 2025 from -$439.8B prior (revised from -$450.2B) in Q1, as tariffs depressed imports, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of ...

Richard Cooper has an oped in today’s FT (avaible here, subscription needed) arguing that the US current account deficit is “not only sustainable, it is perfectly logical”. Cooper argues that a $500 ...

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This paper investigates the implications of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) in the United States for current account balance ...