Worth noting that the deficit bottomed out around 2006, then improved throughout the Obama administration before leveling out. It declined again post-pandemic.

Worth noting that the deficit bottomed out around 2006, then improved throughout the Obama administration before leveling out. It declined again post-pandemic. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/trade-balance-deficit https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni... So something reversed the trend Buffett was seeing in 2003.