Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 1,7 (A-), Anglia Ruskin University (Ashcroft International Business School), language: English, abstract: Since the beginning of the 1980s in almost every year the United States (US or USA) current account has shown a deficit. After a brief overview about the components of a country¿s current account this work provides an analysis of the US deficit¿s effects on the US economy. Furthermore it investigates effects on economies outside the US in order to verify whose problem it is.