Money Merry-Go-Round: Emails Show How Wall Street Execs and Alums Crafted Trade Bill

  Foreign corporations could sue to undermine US protections for consumers’ health, safety and financial security under a provision added to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (TPP) after executives of big banks pressed the nation’s chief trade negotiator, himself a former big-bank executive, to include it. [Kathy Kiely| June 1, 2016 |Moyers & Company]…

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How Low Would We Go for TPP?

  The Trans-Pacific Partnership, the huge new 12-country trade deal, raises the question: How low would we go to get the next NAFTA-style deal? [Stan Sorscher| June 7, 2016 |Huffington Post] The basic idea of a trade deal is that we will lower our tariffs, you will lower your tariffs, and trade goes up. That…

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Government Announces Worsened April Trade Deficit Despite Trade Deals

June 3, 2016 Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145 ext 2, [email protected] Washington ~ The federal government announced that the US trade deficit worsened yet again in April 2016. Policy makers who block efforts to fix currency manipulation and other trade cheating continue to cause poor US trade performance, job losses and manufacturing shrinkage. Here are the relevant…

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DOD, NSA Enter A New World Order: U.S. Is Now Dependent On Foreign Companies For Its Most Sensitive Electronics

Washington legislators have re-awakened to concerns over the Defense Department’s inability to plan for and deal with what is now the final stage in the shift of American microelectronics production offshore. Congress wants the Pentagon to figure out how it is going to deal with issues associated with purchasing “trusted” electronics for military weapons and…

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