If a country has a recession then it has a deficit and if It has a surplus it pays back the extra money which it borrowed and it is therefore assumed that during the business cycle a recession will always be cancelled out be a boom and that when the economy is at the trend rate of growth on the economic cycle then exports and imports are balanced. It would always be balanced if we had a better government not spending more than it takes in and that follow this rule of thinking. Why the neg rep?