by Dave Johnson | May 23, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is using a process that is rigged from the start. It is not being negotiated by governments for the benefit of their people, it is being negotiated by executives (or future executives/lobbyists currently in...
by Dave Johnson | May 14, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
You will be hearing a lot about the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. TPP's negotiations are being held in secret with details kept secret even from our Congress. But giant corporations are in the loop. TPP is a "trade" agreement between several...
by Dean Baker | Apr 30, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
In polite circles in the United States' support for free trade is a bit like proper bathing habits. It is taken for granted. Only the hopelessly crude and unwashed would not support free trade. There is some ground for this attitude. Certainly the United States has...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is being negotiated in secret. Well, not exactly secret -- our trade negotiators know what is being negotiated, other countries know, heads of the huge multinational corporations get to know, but members of our...
