By William K. Black June 5, 2016 Bloomington, MN Proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) know that they have a major problem. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trum...
https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/06/lie-china-wins-tpp-kangaroo-tribunals-stopped.html
By William K. Black May 14, 2016 Bloomington, MN This is the second column in my series on the “Mankiw’s myths and Mankiw morality.” In the first column I showed that N. Gregory ...
The intensity of the conflict over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has died down since last June, after the Administration won its victory in getting Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) through C...
The trade agreements currently being negotiated by the Obama Administration are potentially enormously important in their possible impact on the United States. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
The cloture vote in the Senate is now done, making the TPA vote itself a mere formality. The vote was 60 – 37 in favor of cloture with 13 of the 14 original Democratic defectors (Ben Cardin was...
Let’s review the devious process for passing the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill devised by the Republicans I outlined in my last post. It has the following steps: – Step one: the House ...
Under this plan, they say, the President and the Republicans get what they want, and so do the free trade Democrats (as without their saying it do the funders of both parties). In addition, the f...
https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/06/tpp-fast-track-is-back-shall-it-pass.html
The roll call 126-302 vote (Roll call 361) defeating the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) bill was a result worth a little celebrating on Friday, since it was a very decisive victory on that par...
https://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/06/tpp-fast-track-the-next-rounds-in-congress.html
By William K. Black Quito: June 13, 2015 My answer to the question I pose in my title is “no.” The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is far from dead and can only be defeated by heroic efforts...
There are 246 Republicans and 188 Democrats in the House. Republicans, led by John Boehner and Paul Ryan, say they are confident about having enough votes to hold a successful floor vote on Frida...