Have you ever thought about a question: Why does the United States always have a large and continuous trade deficit We have a powerful diagram I have calculated the current account balances of all countries in the world in the past 35 years In this diagram the top ones are surpluses, and the bottom ones are deficits. If we separate the US, China, Germany, Japan and oil-exporting countries, it is obvious that the United States at the bottom has held up the banner of trade deficit and carried it all by himsel ...