Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton signaled opposition to holding a lame-duck vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a candidate questionnaire released today by an anti-TPP activist group. [Daily News| May 6, 2016 |Inside US Trade] “I have said I oppose the TPP agreement – and that means before and after the election,” Clinton said in response to…
President Obama wrote an op-ed earlier this week in favor of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It was published in the Washington Post. The paper accepted and published, today, Michael Stumo’s letter in response. In his May 3 op-ed, “America, not China, should call the shots on trade,” President Obama made an eloquent case for the Trans-Pacific…
by Michael Stumo This guy, Tim Worstall, is really off the rails. Forbes will print any swill, it seems. But the entire point of trade, of trade deals, as far as America is concerned is the imports which America can buy from the rest of the world. For it is the imports which make us…
by Michael Stumo Hillary Clinton responded this week to a candidate questionnaire from the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign (OFTC) on international trade and trade deals. She re-iterated her opposition to the TPP and to holding a vote in the lame duck session. Many folks, including Hillary’s own supporters, do not trust her to stay firm…
