If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to… — Daniel T. Griswold Copy Share Image
[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
What [Donald] has put up for question is this idea of tariffs. Initially, he said if China won't stop taking advantage of… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it:… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity.… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Many people who have lost out in the last few decades voted for Trump. Trump will have a difficult time turning them… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will… — Andrew Robb Copy Share Image
Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger....Every… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image