https://minutesof.com/on/trade/ Everyone on the record about trade: 30 verbatim quotes from 8 people, May 2020 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to its… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:18 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/0f537a7f-4c94-4417-b868-8bba0a4f15bf/ https://minutesof.com/q/0f537a7f-4c94-4417-b868-8bba0a4f15bf/ “Combining enacted and announced tariffs, estimates of the resulting average effective tariff rate range somewhere between 15 and 20 percent.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches trade https://minutesof.com/q/11266b47-b30f-42e7-8c1a-ced52efbeb6f/ https://minutesof.com/q/11266b47-b30f-42e7-8c1a-ced52efbeb6f/ “What we really needed, they told us, was just to juice the short term profits of a few big corporations. We needed to open that border and prioritize foreign workers over our own citizens.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:22 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/3e21b818-39be-4b4c-a51c-d9752f239acd/ https://minutesof.com/q/3e21b818-39be-4b4c-a51c-d9752f239acd/ “If you buy dairy, cheese, butter, milk that comes from Canada into Maine, you probably are buying a product that has 0% tariffs on it.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:58:11 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/61a8c2e2-a268-4a69-a2dc-24b37d5687f5/ https://minutesof.com/q/61a8c2e2-a268-4a69-a2dc-24b37d5687f5/ “In other cases, American workers didn't just have their jobs destroyed, they got told they were being replaced by a foreign worker, and then they had to train that worker before they got replaced.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:30:28 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/7c9f8018-658a-4620-9cce-f4fb4c78b6fa/ https://minutesof.com/q/7c9f8018-658a-4620-9cce-f4fb4c78b6fa/ “Being replaced by foreign workers, in other words, it was not an accident, my friends. It was the desired outcome of a generation of American elites.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:30:28 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/fe395599-6c4d-4325-b819-30da5ef77e01/ https://minutesof.com/q/fe395599-6c4d-4325-b819-30da5ef77e01/ “He said someone who believes, this is a quote, in the free trade and free movements of capital, they declared, will quite naturally believe in the free movement of labor.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:30:28 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/e1ab0a2f-8f73-4718-b380-52a2b56a134c/ https://minutesof.com/q/e1ab0a2f-8f73-4718-b380-52a2b56a134c/ “Now economists have measured the ways in which the opioid crisis exploded in the very locations where jobs were shipped overseas.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:25:17 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/955af3a7-4baa-4e57-b7f9-5b9cf593e8d5/ https://minutesof.com/q/955af3a7-4baa-4e57-b7f9-5b9cf593e8d5/ “if we are undiplomatic with our partners around the globe, that they will, it'll be more easier for them to rationalize agreements with China.” — Bill Gurley, On with Kara Swisher Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:18:55 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/118adf92-a072-4293-96f1-0f83d0f73bf2/ https://minutesof.com/q/118adf92-a072-4293-96f1-0f83d0f73bf2/ “The US only represents about 14% of China's exports. The US only represents about 3% of China's GDP.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:39:23 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/15ff7e1b-6ed8-4f85-8995-66a07a8dbd66/ https://minutesof.com/q/15ff7e1b-6ed8-4f85-8995-66a07a8dbd66/ “They've invited the president to China. The president has suggested he's going to go to China the first week of September, sometime between September and November.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:11:15 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/af0f4d5d-23e3-4523-8f78-3dafffa49505/ https://minutesof.com/q/af0f4d5d-23e3-4523-8f78-3dafffa49505/ “He said at the AI summit last week, I'm a deal junkie. I like to do deals. You can't be the biggest deal maker in the world without doing a big deal with China.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:11:15 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/f62ea508-a2ac-42a6-97f7-3cc4207a65a5/ https://minutesof.com/q/f62ea508-a2ac-42a6-97f7-3cc4207a65a5/ “On point three, it gets us right? If we do this trade, and I don't know that China would do this trade, but if we did this trade, then it would get us access to those rare earths right now, which is absolutely critical, and it buys us time to stand up our own rare earth supply.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:20:47 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/c857c799-4674-46d6-b18c-d745eac6ae6e/ https://minutesof.com/q/c857c799-4674-46d6-b18c-d745eac6ae6e/ “Just this weekend, he said, free and fair trade, right, has been the most powerful engine for prosperity on a global basis and this country for the last fifty years.” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Mon, 05 May 2025 18:29:26 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/f57749b0-fa11-40d1-8f62-c2c1b0a51735/ https://minutesof.com/q/f57749b0-fa11-40d1-8f62-c2c1b0a51735/ “Longer term, the way we've done this, we have done damage to The US brand. The brand for stability, for predictability, for regularity. That will eventually have some cost to us.” — Marc Rowan, Bloomberg Podcasts Mon, 05 May 2025 14:48:44 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/a56ef65c-c227-4ad7-9dee-9da076dd8517/ https://minutesof.com/q/a56ef65c-c227-4ad7-9dee-9da076dd8517/ “US and Mexico together should be the driving economic force in the world for the next fifty years.” — Marc Rowan, Bloomberg Podcasts Mon, 05 May 2025 14:48:44 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/c54b0f3b-941a-4d95-aa1a-557e988056ad/ https://minutesof.com/q/c54b0f3b-941a-4d95-aa1a-557e988056ad/ “The US and Mexico should be positioned to dominate the economic landscape for the next fifty years. US advanced manufacturing, Mexico the workshop, and so on and so on.” — Marc Rowan, CNBC Television Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:34:06 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/5e13a90d-8145-4262-bc09-04844f0fb054/ https://minutesof.com/q/5e13a90d-8145-4262-bc09-04844f0fb054/ “To the extent we do not want massive amounts of immigration, we are not going to be the low cost manufacturing center for low value goods.” — Marc Rowan, CNBC Television Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:27:57 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/9c257893-afa2-4426-9db0-30836fc40c91/ https://minutesof.com/q/9c257893-afa2-4426-9db0-30836fc40c91/ “we are not going to make sneakers in The US. We have 4% unemployment. We're building all these other things.” — Marc Rowan, CNBC Television Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:27:57 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/40630ba3-f27d-45e4-afd8-25725b8823ce/ https://minutesof.com/q/40630ba3-f27d-45e4-afd8-25725b8823ce/ “give us an a as an economy for allocation of capital and construction of assets, and give us a c for understanding trade and its impact on labor.” — Marc Rowan, CNBC Television Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:27:57 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/77cb36da-d3b1-4216-9f40-d82cb86fa255/ https://minutesof.com/q/77cb36da-d3b1-4216-9f40-d82cb86fa255/ “The difference today of average life expectancy between those two categories is seven years. Seven year average life expectancy. It's not the air. It's not the food. It's not the medicine. It's despair.” — Howard Lutnick, All-In Podcast Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:46:53 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/cae5ff72-4bc2-45be-be24-dcadcd9879b8/ https://minutesof.com/q/cae5ff72-4bc2-45be-be24-dcadcd9879b8/ “Average life expectancy of high school educated workforce so by the way, United States Of America, two thirds is high school educated, one third is college educated.” — Howard Lutnick, All-In Podcast Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:46:53 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/cd9c6b29-75ef-441b-99e5-26a5dda1f7d0/ https://minutesof.com/q/cd9c6b29-75ef-441b-99e5-26a5dda1f7d0/ “You know who has the highest tariffs against The United States Of America? The number one country with the highest tariffs against The United States Of America? Kuwait.” — Howard Lutnick, All-In Podcast Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:46:53 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/2af35f5e-7064-4e73-aca6-21bb59d8bd4d/ https://minutesof.com/q/2af35f5e-7064-4e73-aca6-21bb59d8bd4d/ “You know who has the highest tariffs against The United States Of America? The number one country with the highest tariffs against The United States Of America? Kuwait. And you think, what? That's insane.” — Howard Lutnick, All-In Podcast Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:46:53 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/55977cdb-2c98-464f-b8bc-42eba835d3c9/ https://minutesof.com/q/55977cdb-2c98-464f-b8bc-42eba835d3c9/ “it's unclear to me why a worker in Iowa needs $40 an hour if there's a worker in Mexico that's willing to bust his ass for 15.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 16 May 2024 19:31:21 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/934b2e5a-39a7-47e5-85fa-dae362b0bd56/ https://minutesof.com/q/934b2e5a-39a7-47e5-85fa-dae362b0bd56/ “Like, this is just, you know, deglobalization, highly inflationary, and will make our companies less competitive, not more.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 16 May 2024 19:31:21 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/88632d02-f742-4d27-ad56-a6ffff61bb67/ https://minutesof.com/q/88632d02-f742-4d27-ad56-a6ffff61bb67/ “So I don't celebrate that we're entering what appears to be a global AI cold war Yeah. On the economic front.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:32:49 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/ff7ad15c-26ee-4a34-a86d-f3598e274964/ https://minutesof.com/q/ff7ad15c-26ee-4a34-a86d-f3598e274964/ “There's about a 112,000,000 people in China that work in factories. Factories in China are purpose built. So they're built to make a thing. And then they got to get retooled.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/a45ab994-c0f8-4d60-a56c-532b1ca5a1d9/ https://minutesof.com/q/a45ab994-c0f8-4d60-a56c-532b1ca5a1d9/ “There's about a 112,000,000 people in China that work in factories. Factories in China are purpose built. So they're built to make a thing.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/f89619b1-0c37-4921-a2b8-f46f1a2aba0b/ https://minutesof.com/q/f89619b1-0c37-4921-a2b8-f46f1a2aba0b/ “Factories in China are purpose built. So they're built to make a thing, and then they gotta get retooled if you wanna make another thing.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 trade https://minutesof.com/q/2794d0c8-58ec-4ba7-b168-a7693229ea3e/ https://minutesof.com/q/2794d0c8-58ec-4ba7-b168-a7693229ea3e/ “Decoupling from China is gonna be a bipartisan issue now. I think both candidates now will be well, Trump is gonna is gonna run blaming China for for what happened,” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 trade