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Anti-Trade America?

Posted April 8th, 2016 at 4:43 pm (UTC-5)
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In the name of reducing US inequality, presidential candidates in both parties would stymie the aspirations of hundreds of millions of desperately poor people in the developing world to join the middle class….it will mark a historic turning point in global economic affairs, one that bodes ill for the future of American leadership.

What Mexico Thinks about Trump

Posted March 21st, 2016 at 12:51 pm (UTC-5)
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Mexican politicians and pundits are now debating how best to deal with Mr. Trump. For Mexico, it is not only about pride or political correctness. It is about maintaining a decent working relationship between two countries that share one of the world’s longest borders, highest amounts of trade and largest migration flows…

Loving Our Stuff, but Hating the People Who Sell It to Us

Posted March 21st, 2016 at 12:17 pm (UTC-5)
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The populist Right’s descent into Trumpism has been accompanied by another chorus of that great daft stupid hymn of American political economy: “We Don’t Make Things Here Anymore.” That is completely untrue, of course…

Congress Derails Obama’s Pitch for “Fast Track” Trade Authority

Posted June 12th, 2015 at 12:07 pm (UTC-5)
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In a stunning defeat, Democrats deserted their president on a vote for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a bill that would have bolstered his negotiating power in trade deals with 11 other Pacific Rim countries. Ironically, House Republicans largely supported the measure that would have allowed Obama to make deals with far less congressional meddling.