Fast Track is not just a path to TPP … it’s evil all on its own. There’s now another leaked “trade” deal, called TISA, and Fast Track will “fast-track” that one too. Want your municipal water service privatized? How about your government postal service? Read on
Read more...Why Nancy Pelosi is the White House’s secret weapon for the pending Fast Track bill.
Read more...A 2004 book by Martin Wolf provided the intellectual foundation for the competitiveness fad. Ironically, Wolf debunked his own thesis in it.
Read more...The opposition has done vastly better than expected on stymieing Obama’s toxic trade deals. Thinking ahead to how to block them in the House, and if it gets that far, when the Fast Track fix goes to the Senate.
Read more...The noose continues to tighten on Greece.
Read more...How US superpower overreach has hit the breaking point, yet the officialdom acts as if somehow doing more will succeed.
Read more...The Fed disavows responsibility for the way US interest rate policy sends money sloshing around the world. It’s a huge mistake intellectually and politically.
Read more...Even though China’s Silk Road initiative is in its early stages and still opportunistic, traditional rivalries could impede progress. Even so, the US is concerned about how China has gotten and is making countermoves.
Read more...The sausage-making on the TPP has gotten messier…..
Read more...There is no way that Hillary Clinton is not a strong supporter of TPP and Fast Track
Read more...Revenge is a dish best served cold. Senator Bob Menendez just served an even bigger plate than he intended via an amendment to Obama’s Fast Track bill that thanks to some Republican help, didn’t get modified into mere symbolism. Ooops!
Read more...Hillary Clinton does not want to talk about past economic controversies.
Read more...Why outsourcing winds up producing cost creep over time.
Read more...How the Administration’s Fast Track authority would transfer more power to the President by limiting Congressional authority on “trade” bills.
Read more...The TransPacific Partnership is far from a done deal,. Delay in securing Congressional approval for Fast Track has high odds of throwing a fatal wrench in the overseas timing.
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