I have written a lot about the Investor State Dispute Settlement courts that make up a central tenet of the Trans Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements. These extra-national...
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Above: Slaves in the fishing industry, more beneficiaries of free trade Seafood industry publications are already talking up the expansion of Vietnamese fish exports under the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But what.
Above: More beneficiaries of free trade David Dayen argues that the free trade consensus is dead. Speaking on Monday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, U.S. Trade.
Above: People who have clearly won because of free trade Whenever Vox wants to defend free trade like an evangelist defends some dude walking on water, it gets Zack Beauchamp to write about it. There was of course the ridiculous fear-mongering...
Do we have any interest in having any industrial production left in the United States? This is not an abstract question. It's a real one, at least concerning the aluminum.
This is a guest post by Paul Adler, lecturer at the Harvard History and Literature program. He received his PhD in history from Georgetown University in 2014. Paul’s dissertation, Planetary.
The opposition to our global trade policies and the decimation of the working class in the United States is driving a good bit of the election campaign. How strong is that opposition? Opposition to free trade is a unifying concept even in a deeply divided...
Hillary Clinton's campaign is claiming it beat Bernie Sanders on trade, or at least an article at Tiger Beat on the Potomac makes this claim. Typical of said publication, it.
In 2010, two major unions, the United Auto Workers and the United Food and Commercial Workers, supported the Obama Administration's free trade deal with South Korea because they thought it.
I've still never seen a free trade agreement that didn't crush unions on both sides of the agreement: About 500 fishing cannery workers are in crisis in the Moroccan city of Agadir, according to the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco,...
We know how the appeal of Bernie Sanders is based around economic populism, especially since he's primarily a 1-issue candidate and that's the issue. And we know why--growing income inequality,.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was officially signed by the negotiating countries in Auckland a couple of days ago. This received almost no news coverage, although it will when it goes up.