Isn’t politics just great? Politicians aren’t exactly known for their honesty on things, often saying things to voters just to get elected. But Hillary Clinton’s views on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have received quite a lot of scrutiny. After all, while she was at the State Department, she was a strong supporter of…
DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald J. Trump, a billionaire and currently the front-running 2016 GOP presidential candidate, made the case exclusively to Breitbart News on Saturday that the only way to stop Obamatrade is to elect him President of the United States. [Matthew Boyle| January, 30 2016 | Breitbart] Obamatrade is the combination of and intersection…
A group of economists studying the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) have concluded that the sweeping trade agreement will have a net negative impact on the US economy. [Sam Sacks| February, 02 2016 | TruthOut] Economic researchers with Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute said Monday that widely cited projections claiming the TPP will boost…
President Obama and Republican congressional leaders during a closed-door meeting at the White House on Tuesday (Feb. 2) agreed to continue discussions on the path forward for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Congress after they were unable to bridge the gaps in their positions on when the deal should come up for a vote. [Daily…
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and presidential candidates are having their say about the 12-nation Pacific Rim trade accord that is President Obama’s top economic priority in his final year in office. But lately the liveliest debate over the deal is among blue-ribbon economists. [Jackie Calmes| February, 1 2016 | The New York Times] On Monday, it…
Factory workers in the old Soviet Union had a cynical joke: “We pretend to work. They [the bosses] pretend to pay us.” Similar logic applies in the world trading system. Washington pretends to write the rules; other nations pretend to obey them. [Eamonn Fingleton| February, 1 2016 | Forbes] For two generations already, increasingly pathetic American trade…
The NYT had an article on different trade models that are being used to predict the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It reported on the projections from a model from the Peterson Institute which shows that the TPP would add 0.036 percentage points to the annual growth rate over the next 14 years. On the other…
President Obama will meet with Republican congressional leaders next Tuesday (Feb. 2) to discuss legislative issues on which they can work together in 2016. [Daily News| January, 29 2016 | Inside US Trade] The meeting comes after administration officials have made clear they want Congress to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as soon as possible…
In an interview from Davos with Bloomberg TV on January 20, Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, a top lobbyist for the pro-corporate-power Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] agreement, assured viewers that if Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential election, Clinton will support the TPP, even though she opposes it now. [Robert Naiman| January, 28 2016 | Huffington Post Politics] Reporting on…
After angering some within the liberal wing of his party, Democratic Rep. Ami Bera came to Sacramento on Sunday to make a personal appeal but still failed to receive enough support from activists to secure the Democratic endorsement for his re-election. [Daily News| January, 31 2016 | The Sacramento Bee] Bera, a perennial target of…
