Change Quote by Martin Feldstein

If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough…

— Daniel T. Griswold

Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

— Christofer Drew

A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices, imports and…

— Paul Volcker

You always worry about the devaluation of the dollar, but the devaluation of the dollar is based oftentimes on what the government decides to…

— Francis X. Suarez

I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. When they…

— P. J. O'Rourke

My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to our country.…

— Sam Zell

Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar…

— Martin Feldstein

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

— Warren Buffett

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more…

— Martin Feldstein

Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact…

— Ann Veneman

The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.

— David Wessel

To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to…

— Ben Bernanke