# Professor Robert Salomon comments on misconceptions about U.S. trade deficits

1 Faculty News June 28, 2018 ![Xinhua logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030505.jpg?itok=6NqP0rMN)>

Excerpt from [Xinhua](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/28/c_137287359.htm) -- "'To say that trade deficits are bad, is not the entire story," [Robert Salomon](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-salomon), associate professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University, told Xinhua in a recent interview. Looking at trade deficits, the Trump administration says the United States is 'getting beat on trade or the U.S. is losing -- that's not always entirely clear,' said Salomon."

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