by Dan Day | Jun 12, 2014 | Monitor
In April of this year, the U.S. trade deficit with China hit a two-year high of $47.2 billion, its largest bilateral deficit with any nation. The Chinese trade deficit is often used as a political rallying cry by politicians looking to bring back jobs and end reliance...
by Sean Boers | Nov 21, 2012 | Monitor
By Sean Boers and Aaron Hesse The Pentagon budget has exploded over the past decade, from $290 billion in 2001 to $526 billion last year. But does all that spending make us safer? Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) took a look at the Pentagon budget and found that billions of...