The current account deficit hit a high of $153.96 billion in 1987.

That means the current account deficit will not be much better than last year's $1.4 billion.

With the current and growing deficit, he seems happy to let the less well off continue take the strain.

Officials have estimated its current deficit at $2.6 million, but other reports put it much higher.

The current account deficit is equal to about 5 percent of the total American economy.

That saves $150 billion, the size of our current deficit.

The current deficit could have been reduced at half the rate proposed.

We need that capital because of the huge current account deficit this country is running.

The current account deficit is running at 5.5pc and 711,000 of the nation's 22m people are unemployed.

But future claims against the Treasury are not the same as current deficits.