Best Trade Thoughts
1603 Trade quotes by 1153 unique authors
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the…
— Paul Krugman
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds…
— Paul Krugman
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand…
— Paul Krugman
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Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is…
— George Stigler
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Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in…
— Henry David Thoreau
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America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.
— John McCain
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A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who…
— Woodrow Wilson
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We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival…
— Unknown Author
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the…
— William Howard Taft
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I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that…
— Unknown Author
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The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of…
— Peter Drucker
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Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in…
— Eric Kierans
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Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he)…
— Thomas Paine
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Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he…
— Ayn Rand
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I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the…
— Ayn Rand
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One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to…
— Bruce Lee
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Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.
— David Remnick
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It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on…
— Russell Baker
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:…
— George Washington
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The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.
— Alexander Hamilton
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The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can…
— James Madison
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Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a…
— Ronald Reagan
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