by Dave Johnson | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is expected to become Chair the Senate Finance Committee. A Senate aide says Hatch wants to make Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) — "Fast Track" — one of his top priorities in the new Congress. Click here to tell Congress to vote no on "fast-track"...
by Dean Baker | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Most economists recognize that the economy is still suffering from excessive unemployment. In fact, many acknowledge that excess unemployment has been a problem for some time. Even Lawrence Summers, who was treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and head of...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 15, 2014 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
Think about everything you understood about our system of government here in the United States. We're governed under a document that starts with the words, "We the People." Right? When We the People agree that something should done to make our lives better, it's...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 6, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In a Detroit News op-ed this week, Michigan Republican Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land separated herself from most Republican lawmakers and voiced opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement currently being negotiated. Her op-ed included this: I...
by Dave Johnson | May 19, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Huffington Post has obtained secret texts from the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal. According to the Huffington Post, Europe wants the U.S. to "expand U.S. fracking, offshore oil drilling and natural gas...
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...
