Running Quote by Peter Navarro

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming…

— David Korten

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning…

— Marcy Kaptur

Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

— John W. Snow

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

— David Autor

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

If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving…

— Veerappa Moily

What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it…

— Grover Norquist

We have to get the tax revenues up. That means we have to get back to a healthy American economy, grow the economy so…

— Mick Mulvaney

“Besides being blind to lots of good things, the GDP also benefits from all manner of human suffering. Gridlock, drug abuse, adultery? Goldmines for…

— Rutger Bregman

I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt…

— Mark Kirk

Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great…

— Stephen Moore