by Dave Johnson | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade
Many people don't "get" Donald Trump's appeal, ascribing it to his racist, xenophobic talk. But there is another factor, a very strong one, and we had best pay attention. Trump is tapping into an economic anxiety felt by many, many Americans. Our trade policies are at...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog, China Currency Showdown, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
It’s lights out in Lorain on March 31. The town’s steel mill, site of a new electric arc furnace and $120 million investment, had given 1,200 Ohioans good middle-class jobs this time last year. But by April, a relentless avalanche of underpriced Chinese steel will...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog, Trade
A new study confirms what many activists have suspected for a long time: The private courts set up by international "trade" deals heavily favor billionaires and giant corporations, and they do so at the expense of governments and people. Smaller companies and...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
"Watch what we do, not what we say." - Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell, explaining that the Nixon administration will be pursuing a hidden agenda, no matter what they are telling the public. Forget everything the Obama administration is telling the public about...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Last November the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was released to the public on the website of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). On January 26, a slightly different "scrubbed" version was put on the website of the official host of the agreement, New...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Making it in America, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable, by informing 2,100 of them at two facilities that it was shipping their factories, their jobs, their...
