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In financial economics the Dark Matter hypothesis attempts to explain how an economy can simultaneously experience a large cumulative current account deficit and maintain positive net foreign income, implying that the net international investment position is greater than official figures suggest. The theory was first advanced by Ricardo Hausmann and Federico Sturzenegger in 2005 as a possible explanation for how the United States of America has been able to run up an extraordinarily large cumulative current account deficit and yet still experience net foreign investment income.

The US balance of payments
http://www.bea.gov/international/index.htm#bop