Economics Quote by Scott Bessent

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles…

— Hans F. Sennholz

If the U.S. turns away from the international system, then we will simply have to look after it ourselves. Together, we can demonstrate that,…

— Cecilia Malmstrom

I think it is a mistake to withdraw from Trans-Pacific Partnership because if America abandons the Asia Pacific markets, we'll lose.

— Kevin Brady

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy…

— Stephen F. Lynch

The United States should.... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing…

— William J. Clinton

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into…

— Mike Pompeo

A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for…

— Judy Woodruff

The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the…

— Timothy Geithner

In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more destructive than…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Trade wars in which countries are then obliged to retaliate by raising their own tariffs against the initiator undermine growth and hurt consumers. Far…

— Dominic Grieve

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

— James T. Patterson

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

— Paul Craig Roberts