“In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.” CountrySeriousTradeDevelopingBarriersInfrastructureDeveloping CountriesTariffs Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.” WellsMeanDoneProblemLossEnvironmentLandExampleSeriousOughtCostFundamentalsTradeProductionsStatementsSoilExpensesFarmsFarmersPollutionDeficitPesticidesGroundwater Author:Wes Jackson
“I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.” ThinkingShouldLittlesRealAgeUsedDecisionSeriousDutyTradeNotionProfessionMinistersMeritDelightfulBooksellers Author:William Stanley Jevons
“We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.” WorldNeedsProblemCoursesNationsCommonEffortSupportSeriousConcernTradeDivorcedRecogniseIntegratedFree TradeWorld Trade Author:Lawrence Summers
“Our country is in serious trouble. We don't win anymore.We don't beat China in trade. We don't beat Japan, with their millions and millions of cars coming into this country, in trade. We can't beat Mexico, at the border or in trade.We can't do anything right. Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.” EndsCountryCareWinningMillionsTakenTroubleMilitaryCarSeriousBeatsTradeChinaOur CountryBordersJapanMexicoObamacareVets Author:Donald Trump
“I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade.” ImportantViewsMissingSeriousTradeErrorsPoint Of View Author:William Eckhardt
“War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.” KnowsMenWarCountryGamesRiskSeriousTradeReputationSensibleTroops Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.” HumansStatesLawPurposeUnitedUnited StatesDoubtRightsSeriousRelationCrisisTradeHuman RightsChinaNo DoubtOur RelationshipRule Of LawInstituteBumpsMembership Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“I have done business in China for 25 years, so I know that in order to get China to cooperate with us, we must first actually retaliate against their cyber-attacks so they know we're serious. We have to push back on their desire to control the trade route through the South China Sea through which flows $5 trillion worth of goods and services every year.” KnowsYearsFirstsDoneDesireOrderSeaSeriousFlowTradeSouthChinaGoodsRoutesCyberGoods And ServicesCyber Attacks Author:Carly Fiorina
“If we can create a climate among people that says that any serious candidate for president, Senate, governor, [the] House is going to have to talk about income inequality, raising wages in America, trade policy - that's a huge success. It's not putting pressure on a candidate. It's mobilizing people.” PeopleIfsAmericaHousePresidentPolicySeriousHugePressureTradeClimateIncomeInequalityCandidatesSenateGovernorsWagesIncome Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders