Fisher and I agree that the tradegap and the budget deficit are positives for stocks: the bigger the better. (Americans hold far too little debt, and anything that increases it is a plus.) He also celebrates the supply-side tax cuts, though he deems a negative for stocks the currently little noticed all-government budgetary surplus caused by the tax rate reductions.
And this week it was reported that the U.S. tradedeficit widened by 4.3% in January to its largest gap between imports and exports since October, 2008.