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Trade may raise GDP. But it does make some people worse off.

— David Autor

When we run these big trade deficits and send our jobs offshore, we hold our wages down and our income down. That feeds right…

— Peter Navarro

What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices.

— Richard Heinberg

But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers…

— John W. Snow

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb…

— Rodrigo Rato

I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it's wrong. It does not reflect…

— Ahmed Zaki Yamani

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

— Gordon Brown

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

— Pete Domenici

What's really clear to all of us in the business community is that GDP is slowing everywhere. And the reason is productivity has been…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the…

— Sherwood Boehlert

The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the…

— Glenn Hubbard

There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often…

— Josh Tickell