Quotes About Economy

A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.

Free trade agreements are never for one sector alone.

Being outside the customs union would mean masses of new red tape, a desperate scramble for trade agreements and the re-emergence of a border in Ireland.

We want trade agreements that aid development and increase prosperity, growth and productivity at home and in our trade partner countries.

Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

Every dollar a foreigner spends over here directly subtracts a dollar from the trade deficit.

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

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

The United States is the least protectionist country in the world but has the largest trade deficit, while other countries are highly protectionist and have huge trade surpluses. This cannot continue.

The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of 2008-09.

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.

If the government is funding itself at 2 per cent, you know, how much are you going to pay savers if you want to lend money at a cheaper rate? People have the incentive to build a factory or open new stores. It is a trade-off.

Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

I think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great ideas. They should be allowed to be traded freely and used freely to find their appropriate role in the economy.

A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

We don't see any material impact of Brexit, either in the U.K. or in the neighbouring countries and the U.K.'s trading partners.

We need to remind ourselves that Europe will be our biggest trading partner for the next several decades and probably beyond, so getting the deal with Europe right should be our primary focus.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

If you trade with someone and they are your biggest trading partner, it is impossible you don't have trade issues.