by Dave Johnson | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Over 100 law professors sent an open letter to Congress and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) saying they need to “protect the rule of law and the nation’s sovereignty” in trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). While TPP is still secret, leaks...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Paul Krugman gives a "thumbs down" to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) today on his New York Times blog "in TPP at the NABE." Taking it a bit further, he writes, ...it doesn’t look like a good thing either for the world or for the United States, and you have to...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A newly launched public relations campaign in support of trade promotion authority, a.k.a. "fast track," and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) calls itself "the Progressive Coalition for American Jobs." At its foundation is a set of misleading (at best) claims that...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 9, 2015 | Blog, Trade
Trade is great. We all trade. A lot of us trade labor for money that buys other things. A farmer trades corn for money that buys other things, and so on. No one is "against trade." But is anything called "trade" always good for all involved? Imagine you're a farmer...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 6, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]http://youtu.be/W1WMiGsrhpA[/fve] (Video from Economy in Crisis through the USW Blog) The U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday that the January goods and services trade deficit was $41.8 billion in January, down $3.8 billion from $45.6 billion in December (which...
