by Dave Johnson | May 2, 2014 | Blog
Senate Republicans filibustered the minimum wage increase. This means the bill doesn't even get a debate, never mind a vote. This is part of their strategy to hold back the economy and then campaign on the bad "Obama" economy. Meanwhile cities and states are helping...
by Dave Johnson | May 1, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The enormous, humongous trade deficit is doing incredible damage to our economy. Our country's elites used to care about that. In 2003 Warren Buffett wrote a highly-influerntial article, America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling The Nation Out From Under Us. Here's A...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama held a joint press conference on Sunday with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and was somewhat dismissive of critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive "trade" treaty currently being negotiated between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei,...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
There is a huge trade treaty coming that will completely change the relationship between giant corporations and governments around the world. So why is the American corporate media telling the public so little about the Trans-Pacific Partnership? The Trans-Pacific...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Trade
I discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and what President Obama's trip to Asia could mean for American workers on "The Sunday Show with Philip Maldari" Sunday morning, on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Calif. Listen to the full show here: With me on the show was Tim...
