by Leo Gerard | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Donald Trump stomped into my backyard just days before July 4 and claimed to be a steelworker. That’s right. The billionaire, whose manicured little hands routinely slip into lambskin golf gloves but never once donned heavy-duty work mitts, actually claimed to...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 1, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Donald Trump is selling himself as the champion of working-class voters. He says Democrats and their presumptive presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, are selling them out with trade deals. But Trump is just a fraud. Unfortunately, President Obama is pushing the...
by Bill Scher | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog, Trade
Whenever you listen to Donald Trump speak about trade, as he did Tuesday in Pittsburgh, always keep in front of your mind that he is peddling a con. He slams recent trade agreements by "the politicians," and promises to negotiate "great deals," but he never explains...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A Canadian corporation is suing the us because we wouldn't let them build a pipeline across our country (seizing people's property along the way) so they could sell oil to China. They can do this because we signed a trade agreement that places corporate rights above...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Democratic party's elites must not think that trade and jobs will be big issues in the coming election. Apparently, they've never listened to a Donald Trump speech, and didn't notice that working-class people in the United Kingdom just voted to "brexit" from the...
by Thomas Palley | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Trade
In years to come, the Brexit referendum may come to be seen as the day we entered the eye of the maelstrom that now promises enormous destruction. The immediate consequence looks to be a possible financial crisis, but even if that is avoided the other costs of Brexit...
