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President Obama: 'For The Americas, This Is A Moment Of Great Promise'

Reuters | Posted 04.15.2012

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CARTAGENA, Colombia, April 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama stressed on Saturday the "great promise" for business growth in the Americas, ...

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Trade Deals: Backdoor Financial Deregulation

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.20.2012

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Wall Street has a new power tool to demolish financial stability policies, and it comes from a source many would not expect.

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Bipartisan Fail: Politicians Ignore the People and Double Down on Corporate "Free Trade" At Their Own Peril

Curtis Ellis | Posted 12.13.2011

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So much for bipartisanship. Democrats and Republicans in Congress have approved the one part of President Obama's jobs agenda voters hate the most.

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Get Money Out to Bring Jobs In

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 12.07.2011

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How, exactly, is this working? How is this system depriving us of what we need? It's simple -- the cash speaks, the people don't.

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Obama Flip-Flops Off Trade Cliff

Lori Wallach | Posted 12.04.2011

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At this point, that Obama did a total flip-flop on very specific, written, repeated campaign promises -- in this instance to replace the old damaging trade model starting with fixing these three deals -- is not news.

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The Last Thing American Workers and Our Economy Needs...

Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Posted 12.03.2011

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Unfortunately, the proposed free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama do nothing to address the significant flaws in the free trade model that prioritize the rights of multinational companies over the rights of workers and the American economy.

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Trade Pacts Obama Is Flacking in Jobs Plan Would Increase Trade Deficit Say Government Studies

Lori Wallach | Posted 11.07.2011

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Whatever one thinks about the idea of "free trade," the federal government's own studies predict that FTAs with Korea, Colombia and Panama would increase the U.S. trade deficit.

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Free Trade is Making America the New Portugal

Ian Fletcher | Posted 11.01.2011

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America doesn't need to cut itself off from the world entirely, but it does need to get wise to the fact that the rest of the world views trade (correctly) as an arena of national rivalry, and start playing the game.

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Breakthrough Between Congress And Obama Admin Paves Way For Free Trade Deals

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 08.28.2011

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WASHINGTON — The White House and congressional lawmakers reached a deal Tuesday to propel three coveted free trade agreements toward a vote on C...

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GOP To Block Key Cabinet Official Over Free Trade Deals

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama’s nominee for Commerce Secretary came to Capitol Hill Tuesday for his first Senate nominations hearing—and be...

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Do Ideas Matter in Economic Policy, or Just Special Interests?

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Without economics, vested interests can't tell whether free trade benefits them or not, just as a company can't know whether or not it is profitable without resort to accounting principles.

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The Social Snobbery of Free Trade

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is high time people stopped forming their opinions about free trade based on what they think people will think of them at cocktail parties.

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The Korea Trade Deal Is Lose-Lose

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.25.2011

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The bottom line for the U.S.-South Korea FTA is that some large U.S., Korean and Chinese multinational firms could gain at the expense of the majority of people in both countries.

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Colombia's Anti-Union Violence Rules out Free Trade Agreement

Ross Eisenbrey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama is currently being pressed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and corporate interests to advance a free trade agreement with Colombia that he campaigned against when he ran for president.

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THE TEA PARTY AND ME

Ross Eisenbrey | Posted 05.25.2011

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I work for a progressive think tank, so I'm no anti-intellectual. And despite spending my first 26 years in Iowa, Ohio, and Michigan, my last 30 have...

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The Mystique of "Free-Market Guy" Obama

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Liberal activists need to be smart enough to see Obama for the status quo politician he is -- and to act accordingly.

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Bush Open To Stimulus Package If Dems Drop Opposition To Colombia Free-Trade Deal

New York Times | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The struggling auto industry was thrust into the middle of a political standoff between the White House and Democrats on Monday as Presi...

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McCain: Obama Will Take Away Your Crocs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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For weeks, John McCain has been fighting off the notion that his presidency would be a third Bush term, even using a prime time address -- on the nigh...

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Is the GOP Really the Party of Free Trade?

William Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama is highly intelligent, highly trained -- and he knows full well that the nation as a whole benefits from free trade, even if substantial minorities are harmed by it.

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The Power of Positive Polling

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chuck Todd said he was trying to "wean himself" off the daily national tracking polls because "a couple of them are very erratic sometimes" -- but still, these are the polls that show up every day across every platform in the media.

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