- For the first time in any U.S. trade agreement, the TPP empowers some of the world’s largest financial firms to challenge U.S. financial regulatory policies in extrajudicial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals using the broadest “minimum standard of treatment” claim. http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2015/11/tpp-financial-stability-threats-unveiled-its-worse-than-we-thought.html?utm_content=buffer45649&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 7 comments worldnews
- President Obama apparently has a flair for irony. He selected the headquarters of offshoring pioneer Nike as the place to pitch the controversial TPP trade deal in a major speech on Friday. As Obama tries to sell a pact that many believe would lead to more U.S. job offshoring and lower wages, why wo http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2015/05/seven-corporations-that-could-sponsor-obamas-controversial-trade-deal-if-his-nike-endorsement-falls-.html 11 comments economy
- Obama Administration is grossly misrepresenting a study about TPP as claiming 650,000 jobs would be created when in fact that study *does not make that claim at all!* Also, they and the EU are doing the exact same thing with TTIP -the huge US-EU trade deal! (see comments for links to these studies) http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2015/02/if-pinocchio-were-trying-to-sell-a-controversial-trade-deal.html 10 comments economy
- US Media Information Blockade Is keeping Americans Ignorant of Three Trade Deals And Bad Policymaking That Are Rapidly Making Medicines Hugely More Expensive http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/08/tpp-the-trade-deal-that-could-inflate-your-healthcare-bill.html 30 comments economy
- Free Trade Agreements Clearly Hurting, Not Helping, Economy and Exports: Trade Deficits Have Grown More Than 440% with FTA Countries http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/03/us-trade-deficits-have-grown-more-than-440-with-fta-countries-but-declined-16-with-non-fta-countries.html 17 comments economy
- Studies Reveal Consensus: Trade Flows during “Free Trade” Era have Exacerbated USA Income Inequality http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/01/studies-reveal-consensus-trade-flows-during-free-trade-era-have-exacerbated-us-income-inequality.html 15 comments economy
- Investor-State Tribunal of Three Private Lawyers Ignores Years of U.S. and Ecuadorian Court Rulings, Tries to Extinguish Indigenous Communities’ Rights to Sue Chevron for Contamination http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/12/ecuadors-highest-court-vs-a-foreign-tribunal-who-will-have-the-final-say-on-whether-chevron-will-pay.html 4 comments worldnews
- Study: "Trade" Deal Would Mean a Pay Cut for 90% of U.S. Workers — "The verdict is in: most U.S. workers would see wage losses as a result of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sweeping U.S. "free trade" deal under negotiation with 11 Pacific Rim countries" http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/09/the-verdict-is-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-a-sweeping-free-trade-deal-under-negotiation-with-11-pacific-rim-coun.html 195 comments politics
- Bush: "'ll be dead before the true history of the Bush administration is written.” http://citizen.typepad.com/watchdog_blog/2008/01/true-history-of.html 47 comments politics