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 15, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism, Trade
So-called "free trade" agreements have been used to strengthen the power of giant corporations, weaken democratic government and deliver fear to American workers. These agreements enabled the corporate elite to say to Americans, "If you complain about pay or benefits...
by Dave Johnson | May 14, 2014 | Blog, Trade
There has been a surge in steel imports, as companies in other countries try to make up for low demand by selling steel in the US at below-market prices. This is putting hundreds of thousands of American jobs – and our steel industry – at risk. Our government needs to...
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...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama held a joint press conference on Sunday with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and was somewhat dismissive of critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive "trade" treaty currently being negotiated between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei,...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
There is a huge trade treaty coming that will completely change the relationship between giant corporations and governments around the world. So why is the American corporate media telling the public so little about the Trans-Pacific Partnership? The Trans-Pacific...
