THE ECONOMY & MAIN STREET • TRADE & MANUFACTURING
That’s what left the country — net — in a single month. August 2026. The U.S. imported a record $420.8 billion in goods and services while exporting $315.2 billion. The gap: $105.6 billion, the widest since March 2025, right before tariffs were supposed to fix this. Your share, as a household? About $788. Capital goods imports hit a record $146.4 billion, driven by semiconductors and industrial machinery. This is the trade figure sitting inside today’s GDP advance estimate… and it’s pulling the whole thing down.
Elon Musk is on record predicting this new opportunity is set to be 180 times bigger than the SpaceX IPO.
That IPO minted 4,400 millionaires overnight.
If this is 180 times bigger…
Just imagine how many more Americans will become millionaires.
Will you be one of them?
The last time the trade deficit was this wide, it was March 2025 — one month before Liberation Day tariffs were supposed to shrink it.
