The Art of the Empty Trade Deal
Trump’s Japan and E.U. deals offer vague promises and lack the depth and enforceability of the TPP he scrapped.
Trump’s Japan and E.U. deals offer vague promises and lack the depth and enforceability of the TPP he scrapped.
On his first day in office, Donald Trump tore up the Trans-Pacific Partnership. His administration is now seeking to put together something similar.
Signing a trade with Japan is a small step in the right direction, but it only cancels out a portion of the damage that Donald Trump has done.
Is he trying to find a middle ground as Dems divide on trade? Or is he just talking gibberish?
The pact is better without American influence-but now we won't enjoy the benefits.
Without American participation, everyone could end up worse off-particularly Americans.
American consumers, exporters and manufacturing will get screwed
The 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act was a policy disaster never to be repeated, says Dan Griswold of the Mercatus Center. Until now.
Ex-Rage Against the Machine axman Tom Morello decides to Rock Against the TPP.
What you need to know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Yes, the TPP contains some protectionist policies. Daniel Ikenson thinks it's still worth supporting.
Renegotiating TPP would reduce its effectiveness.
Rich countries open their borders to trade (and poor countries don't).
Food policy cognoscenti discuss the top issues of 2015 and predict what might happen in 2016.
She'll even sell out her husband's trade legacy to get elected.
She was for the TPP before she was against it
Good news on tariffs, bad news on copyrights
It already passed the Senate. Now it has to again.
Opponents are depicting the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal as full of sinister provisions, which will be known only after it is too late to escape them.
When it come to immigration and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Republicans and Democrats sound more like South Park rednecks than statesmen.
The maddening third-best quality of secret international trade pacts for free trade lovers
Supporters tout the benefits for just the few, when actually we all gain.
A free trade agreement that is about neither trade nor freedom.
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