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Balance of Payments – An Example
Next let’s seperate the different levels of detail into different columns and add some brackets & arrows to indicate what items are combined into other items.
Let’s also color code the items. Green means it’s a “debit”. This means money is flowing into the U.S. Red means the item is a “credit” which represents money flowing out of the U.S. Items in black are items that could be either debit or credit. The color of the number indictes what they actually were in the U.S. in 2006.