“The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.” NormalRelationTradeChinaPermanentAgreementPartnershipTransPacificContinuationTrade AgreementsNafta Author:Bernie Sanders
“People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.” PeopleWantUsedLyingLevelsViewsPathReturnNormalTradeSellsNotionDearDisasterAssumptionTrendsEmergingCheapness Author:William Eckhardt
“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.” PeopleIfsShouldRunningPastBeliefCausesStepsRiskTroubleChangedRegretNormalTradeHistorianMistakenVocationConservatism Author:A. J. P. Taylor
“If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.” PeopleIfsFeelsIdeasRealWholeHomeStuffSeeingNormalSittingTradeBoxesBoringToysNew ThingsNew IdeasBoring Life Author:Alex Day
“During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China's market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.” SaidOpportunityPresidentCompanyEconomyRecordsNormalRelationTradeBillsClintonWorkersChinaBillionsDebateOpeningPermanentAgreementFarmersDeficitUnprecedentedPresident Bill ClintonRecords Breaking Author:Bernie Sanders
“To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the normal state of politics that the more centralized it is, the more damage it does. Fast-track authority [for government-to-government trade agreements] centralizes power and is therefore part of the problem.” DoeStatesProblemGovernmentNamesCrimeAuthorityNormalTradeTrackCorruptionDamageAgreementTrade AgreementsSyndicate Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“NAFTA, supported by the Secretary cost, us 800,000 jobs nationwide, tens of thousands of jobs in the Midwest. Permanent normal trade relations with China cost us millions of jobs. Look, I was on a picket line in early 1990's against NFATA because you didn't need a PhD in economics to understand that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Mexico making 25 cents an hour.” PeopleNeedsShouldLooksJobsHoursLinesMillionsCostNormalEconomicsRelationTradeWorkersChinaPermanentMexicoCentsSecretaryMidwestAmerican WorkersPhdsNafta Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal.” ThinkingStoriesBehaviorNormalTradeChecksDefinedManhoodConquestDisrespectful Author:Nate Parker
“People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.” PeopleKindUseProductsCostNormalTradeChainsGrantedGlobalizationManufacturingReductionSupply Chain Author:Christine Lagarde
“Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.” PeopleActorsNormalWeaknessToolsTradeInsecurity Author:Miranda Richardson