by Dave Johnson | Mar 27, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Thursday the AFL-CIO released a new report, NAFTA at 20. The report makes the point that, “On the whole, NAFTA-style agreements have proved to be primarily a vehicle to increase corporate profits at the expense of workers, consumers, farmers, communities, the...
by Matt Murray | Mar 21, 2014 | Trade
Jobs, jobs, jobs! That is what every member of Congress said they were going to create if we elected them. President Obama said he would create one million new manufacturing jobs. The President has not met his goal yet, but there are a few things we can do to reduce...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 21, 2014 | Trade
In my recent post Trade: Who Advocates For American Interests? I wrote that, "other countries advocate for the interests of their economy, businesses and working people, and our own elites also advocate for the interests of other countries’ economies, businesses and...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 19, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Former Clinton Chief of Staff Thomas 'Mack' McLarty has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling on Democrats to support more "free trade." His basic argument: More trade is always better. But is the goal more trade, or trade that benefits We the People of the...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 7, 2014 | Trade
The January trade deficit report is out, along with the February jobs report. The trade deficit is up, and as a result manufacturing jobs aren't doing all that well. That's because a trade deficit means that jobs move out of the country. People should be afraid of the...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 6, 2014 | Trade
Our enormous, humongous trade deficit hurts our economy; our budget deficit right now doesn’t. What would the result be if people were more worried about the trade deficit than the budget deficit? Fixing the trade deficit would mean more jobs, higher wages and a much,...
