by Dave Johnson | Jun 9, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
This week more than 450 organizations joined to ask Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) because of provisions that would allow corporations to sue governments over laws and regulations that might restrict their profits. The groups are concerned that...
by Burning Issues Video | Jun 6, 2016 | Burning Issues, Trade
[fve]https://youtu.be/Axg4kHLk6lc[/fve] The Trans-Pacific Partnership does not address a key driver of the job-sapping trade deficits the United States has with some of its trading partners, currency manipulation, says trade expert Pat Mulloy in this Burning Issues...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday that the April goods and services trade deficit was $37.4 billion in April, up $1.9 billion from a revised $35.5 billion in March. (March was previously reported as $40.4 billion before the revision.) According to the report:...
by Dave Johnson | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
More and more the word is getting out that President Obama, along with the giant multinational corporations and Wall Street, will launch a push in Congress to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the "lame duck" legislative session following the election....
by Dave Johnson | May 31, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership's "Democracy Hijacking" with Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, this past weekend on his radio show "The Zero Hour with Richard Eskow." The "hijacking" refers to a...
by Dave Johnson | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Trade
Members of Congress are weighing in against the U.S. government's use of "gunboat diplomacy"-style intimidation of Colombia against that country allowing a generic version of an ultraexpensive cancer drug named Gleevec in order to protect the public's health....
