Capital One has confirmed that it is experiencing a technical issue affecting a range of its customer-facing services. The problem has led to widespread reports from customers who are unable to access deposits, view account balances, or make transactions.   Nature of the Issue According to a statement from Capital One, the outag

  Trump equates trade deficits with financial losses, a perspective economists generally refute. A trade deficit simply means the country imports more than it exports, not that it's losing money. For example, the U.S. had a $67.9 billion trade deficit with Canada in 2023, far less than Trump's claim of "$200 billion." Economist Gary Clyde Hufbauer's analogy highlights this