I myself used to say that men would ruin themselves if they were left to barter freely!
Category: Trade Balance
VII. – A CHINESE TALE.
I can see that, in a little while, we will be short of everything, because we will no longer have any need to make anything.
XVI. – BLOCKED RIVERS PLEADING IN FAVOR OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
For the channeling of the Garonne would encourage the invasion of products from Toulouse to the detriment of Bordeaux and the flooding of products from Bordeaux to the detriment of Toulouse.
XV. – MORE RECIPROCITY.
Is it not ludicrous that you are already inflicting this regime on the nation for fear that it will run the risk of reaching it one day without you?
X. – RECIPROCITY.
Let us therefore sign commercial treaties on the basis of an equitable reciprocity, let us make concessions in return for concessions, and let us make the sacrifice of buying in order to obtain the benefit of selling.
IX. – AN IMMENSE DISCOVERY.
Frankly, is it not somewhat humiliating for the nineteenth century to prepare a spectacle of childishness such as this for future ages with such imperturbable seriousness?
VIII. – DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES.
For all the deputies, ministers, and journalists agree on this point, that the more a people receive in exchange for a given quantity of their products, the poorer they become.
VI. – THE BALANCE OF TRADE.
Combating the balance of trade, I will be told, is like tilting at windmills.