Free trade Quote by Ha-Joon Chang

“And for all concerned there was a deepening anger that under the cloak of defending the sacred tenet of “free trade,” the United States…

— Scott Anderson

“By 1971 the United States had an unfavorable balance of international trade for the first time since 1893.”

— James T. Patterson

“Part of the difficulty in accepting the good news about trade is in our words. We too often talk about trade while using the…

— Ronald Reagan

“Nevertheless, the idea that the bankrupt Europeans, who had already put the world through the wringer of two world wars in less than three…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And this was…

— Paul Johnson

“Elite support for so-called free trade is due to the fact that elites share a global perspective at odds with the best interests of…

— James Rickards

“When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine…

— Ben Carson

“Eventually the United States became the latter arsenal and bank of the allies, and acquired a direct interest in allied victory that was to…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Trade and commerce, which were used by England and now China, are the best methods to conquer the world peacefully.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system…

— Andrew Feinstein

“After all, the two issues on which the United States formally declared war—America’s trade rights as a neutral in the ongoing European wars and…

— Troy Bickham

Before Trump, trade policy ceded our manufacturing strength to foreign nations.

— Eugene Scalia