Harley Shaiken, University of California, Berkeley Over the last several days, President Barack Obama pulled out all the stops to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) – aka fast track – which would restrict Congress to an up-or-down vote without amendments on trade deals for the next three years[...]
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June 15th, 2015 - 11:27 am § in Misc.
“The Hot Stove:” Why Pelosi and House Democrats turned on their president over free trade
June 12th, 2015 - 10:30 pm § in Politics
TPA is dead! Long live free trade!
“What most Americans have experienced are more foreign products on shelves, weak job growth for Americans, and declining living standards for all but the wealthy.” Ordinary Americans apparently have reached the end of their rope with politicians who give away their jobs — especiall[...]
Is Free Trade Good For US . part 2.
In response to Norm My point us the same. Protectionism raises cost on everything workers buy while encouraging capital flight. How do you feel about Japanese protectionism or french protectionism. Do you think THEIR workers benefit.from the absurd prices for rice and wheat? As for Korean and Ja[...]
Commentary by Norm: Is Free Trade Good For Us? Pt. 1.
In Response to SMS Defence of Free Trade: Respectfully, do you realize that the TPP and TAFTA would prevent any country from responding to “hot money” by outlawing capital controls — (the only country to escape relatively unscathed from the Asian Tigers meltdown of ’97-’[...]
Republicans trade lives for freedom: Your life, their freedom
News and liberal commentary. “The number of coronavirus-linked deaths worldwide surpassed the 1 million mark on Monday, … according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The United States has recorded the highest number of cases and deaths to date …. A University of Washing[...]
A brief history of free speech in America
Free speech as we know it occurred late in American history, is fragile, and could go away. For most of American history, unpopular political views could (and did) get dissidents, organizers, publishers, and even artists thrown in prison. The notion of a “free trade in ideas,” which spra[...]
March 21st, 2023 - 8:19 pm § in Humor, Law and Courts
Is this trademark infringement?
Or product disparagement? Or parody protected by the First Amendment? One thing for sure: Any question for the Supreme Court is a good law school test question. (Spoiler hint: The Court’s current majority has heavily favored free speech in other cases, but judging from recent rulings, they may[...]
Tradeoff: U.S. Embassy will stay in Jerusalem, but Biden will pursue Palestinian statehood
“President-elect Joe Biden will not reverse Donald Trump’s landmark recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital but will seek a state for the Palestinians, Antony Blinken, his nominee for secretary of state” told a Senate panel on Tuesday, January 29, 2021 “The only wa[...]
September 30th, 2019 - 10:52 am § in Misc.
The Fight for (some) Academic Freedom in China
(from China Digital Times) On June 21, former Peking University Law School professor Gong Renren published an essay on the prospects for official plans to lift China’s universities into the global top tier. While massive financial investment may enable this in the fields of science and technol[...]
Commentary by Norm: Is Free Trade Good For Us? Pt. 3.
Continuing the thread about free trade Auto workers in Japan and Germany have been paid more than UAW workers in this country have for more than three decades. Your suspicions are flat out wrong. The problem with the cost of building US cars is primarily, tho not exclusively, the cost of worker [...]