-->Imports top exports by nearly $764 billion, fed by record oil prices, insatiable consumer appetite for imports.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The U.S. trade deficit jumped 6.5 percent to a record $763.6 billion last year as high oil prices and Americans' appetite for foreign-made goods outpaced strong exports.......

....The deficit came even as U.S. exports surged to a record $1.44 trillion last year, up 12.3 percent from 2005. But imports also jumped, up 10.5 percent to about $2.20 trillion for the year.......

....The gap is now so large that exports would have to grow more than 50 percent faster than imports for the trade gap simply to stay at last year's level......

Die Wirtschaftsnachrichten aus den USA werden immer dramatischer, was den Aktienkurs z.B.
gar nicht berührt.

....And the gap isn't much of a problem in the short term as long as our trading partners take the dollars they get from those sales and invest them here, as they have been doing.

Wer will denn in Zukunft noch mehr Dollar akzeptieren?
Diesen CNN - Bericht muß man als ernste Warnung aufgefasst werden.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/13/news/economy/trade_gap/index.htm?cnn=yes