balance of payments

Example Sentences

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“A trade deficit is distinct from, and does not on its own generate, a balance of payments deficit,” the suit claims.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

The balance of payments is such a nonissue that the feds stopped publishing several data series about it in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

For Elliott, “Argentina needs a much lower exchange rate, much higher interest rates and a significant economic contraction” to stabilize the balance of payments.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 2025

If anything, Newsom may even have downplayed the size of California’s negative balance of payments with the federal government.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025

Eventually, though, Lefty began to understand the difference between five-card draw and seven-card stud, and gradually the balance of payments around the table began to shift.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides