Trade Agreements

Europe's ACTA Freak Out: How Hollywood Holds Back the Trade Agenda

Harold Feld | Posted 04.18.2012

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Harold Feld

Whenever there is an international trade agreement negotiation, Hollywood jumps in, takes over, and starts driving the crazy train off a cliff by demanding all kinds of nonsense in the name of "stopping piracy."

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Dan Froomkin

Auction 2012: 'NAFTA With Asia' Is Big Money's Next Goal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.02.2012

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Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement ...

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Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership Disaster

Ian Fletcher | Posted 01.21.2012

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Ian Fletcher

After the failed promises of NAFTA, a job-destroying trade deficit that has burgeoned despite a long series of free-trade agreements, and ever-more-aggressive foreign mercantilism, we're plowing ahead with even more of these agreements.

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Ryan Grim

Congress Somehow Figures Out How To Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.12.2011

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WASHINGTON - Congress -- if you listen to pundits and Washington politicians -- is completely broken. But when multinational corporate interests are a...

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Let's #Occupy to Block the Colombia Trade Deal

Robert Naiman | Posted 12.10.2011

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Robert Naiman

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is poised to pass three Wall Street-driven trade deals written by the 1% for the benefit of the 1%, which will further impoverish and disempower the 99%, in the U.S. and abroad.

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States Agree on Exports

David Adkins | Posted 12.04.2011

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David Adkins

With the president's submission of three pending trade agreements to Congress, exports might also be one of the few areas where both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue can reach agreement.

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Export Drop Shows Need for New Trade Strategy

James Bacchus | Posted 10.26.2011

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James Bacchus

Turning up the heat a little more in this long hot summer of our national discontent is the news that American exports are declining.

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We Are the United States of America, the Greatest Country on Earth -- We Don't Default

Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Posted 09.27.2011

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich

We are the United States of America, the greatest country on earth. We build wealth. We don't default.

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Dan Froomkin

Want To Know Who Will Benefit Most From Trade Deals? Watch The Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.24.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The three major free trade agreements Congress will soon consider are being promoted as a big win for American workers. But take a good ...

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Small, Medium-Sized Businesses Not Expecting Growth To Pick Up

Posted 09.11.2011

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NEW YORK Alexandra Alper) - Small and medium-sized companies are increasingly glum about the chances of a pickup in growth in the U.S. economy ov...

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Harleys to Hanoi: How Foreign Consumers Can Rev Up U.S. Growth

Ed Gerwin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ed Gerwin

The United States virtually invented the modern middle class. Today, our exporters must reach out to the global middle class, and our government must assure that foreign trade barriers don't stand in the way.

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A Fashion Foreign Policy

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Likosky

To protect American workers, in the luxury sector and elsewhere, our government trade negotiators should revisit outsourcing rules.

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The Obama Challenges

John Bruhns | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Bruhns

As President, Obama will need to confront two costly wars, global terrorism, an economy on the brink and a serious energy crisis. Don't expect immediate change.

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Debate Prep #1: On Guard Against McCain

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Friday's national security debate will take on a surreal quality, with the financial crisis preoccupying both campaigns, so I am writing this debate prep checklist of possible McCain lines of attack.

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