Today’s Trade Deficit: The Cost Of The Supply Chain.

<p>Its called a balance of trade for a reason. In in an ideal world, with a properly functioning economy, all things should be in balance. The economy itself should be balanced. With production and consumption roughly equal. </p> <p>And so to, trade with other countries should be balanced. This country trading it's goods and materials with the rest of the world, in relative balance.</p>