by Dave Johnson | Aug 12, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/_m1p5h1lFOg[/fve] One day after presidential candidate Hillary Clinton strongly underscored her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a speech in Detroit, President Obama officially started the clock on a lame-duck congressional vote on...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In a representative democracy, the idea is that the representatives should support the preferences of their constituencies. This is what is happening with the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick, Tim Kaine has reversed his...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 21, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Is Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump changing his tune on trade, or was he just making it up all along? This year, working-class voters are high-intensity opposed to trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and Trump figured that out early....
by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Recent headlines might make us think the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is "dead" or at least at "death's door." We can hope. But the Wall Street, giant multinational corporations, many Republicans in Congress and unfortunately the Obama administration are still...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The draft of the Republican platform at first glance sounds pretty good when it comes to trade. So how do they thread the needle between assumed-candidate Donald Trump's words on trade and most of the party's – and Trump's own – actual positions? Those positions...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 7, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/YmLHwZkonwY[/fve]Video: Sen. Elizabeth Warren on why we need to stop the TPP. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is likely to come up for a vote in the "lame-duck" session of Congress that follows the November presidential election. Will the...