Government Announces Larger December Trade Deficit Despite Trade Deals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 05, 2016 Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145, [email protected] Washington ~ The federal government announced today that the US trade deficit worsened yet against last December. Modern trade deals continue to cause failures in US trade performance and loss of dynamic, diverse manufacturing and agricultural supply chains.  Here are the relevant points from…

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Hillary Clinton Flip Flopped On TPP Before, So Big Business Lobbyists Are Confident She’ll Really Flip Back After Election

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…

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Exclusive — Donald J. Trump Makes the Case that Electing Him President Is the Only Way to Stop Obamatrade

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…

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Study: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Cost US a Half Million Jobs, Drag Down GDP

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…

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