As a result, the November trade deficit was $36.4 billion. With 11 months of data in hand, the U.S. trade deficit in 2009 is running at the annual rate of $372 billion, roughly halfway between the $696 billion trade gap the country registered in 2008 and the positive balance to which it might aspire.
An analysis by the University of Calif Center Sacramento showed that the state shipped $10.95 billion in goods abroad in Nuv. |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.