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 Robert Borosage | Mar 5, 2015 | Blog, Trade
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch just postponed the introduction of fast-track trade authority legislation until April. Fast track is designed to grease the skids for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement that is still being negotiated behind closed...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 5, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Opponents of fast track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are gaining momentum. In spite of a virtual media blackout, public awareness of the coming trade deal is increasing. More and more public-interest organizations are organizing and denouncing the rigged...
