Crony Capitalists Counter Attack for TPP

Democrats ripped President Barack Obama’s Asia Pacific trade deal in Philadelphia this week, much as Republicans had the week before in Cleveland. But despite the boisterous politics and candidates’ dead-on-arrival declarations, business groups have launched a well-funded, national effort to lobby their way to TPP approval. [Megan Cassella| August 1, 2016 |Politico] Caterpillar Inc. hosted…

Global establishment scrambles to defend free trade

Hillary Clinton faces an election that has come to revolve around the legitimacy of a political establishment that she epitomizes. And no issue has fueled that challenge – in the US and Europe alike – more powerfully than international trade. [Simon Tilford| July 29, 2016 |Project Indicate] LONDON – According to conventional economic wisdom, free…