There’s a growing recognition within the legal community that the ISDS provisions of treaties like NAFTA, TPP, many trade agreements already signed and almost all agreements going forward … may well be unconstitutional
Read more...After a decisive defeat on TAA, a provision which needed to be passed to secure Fast Track approval, the Administration is trying to secure a stealth reversal.
Read more...An explanation of the votes on TAA and Fast Track last week, and the options open to the Administration for trying to reverse this defeat.
Read more...Another day, yet another private equity exposé, this one on an atypically simple-minded scam.
Read more...Both sides in the Greece/creditor negotiations have said they have reached the limits of what they are prepared to give.
Read more...The idea that a loyal ally like Australia is even considering not signing the TPP is yet another sign that the deal is in trouble overseas as well as in the US.
Read more...Hoexter examines the disconnect between the preferred methods of climate activists versus the magnitude and urgency of the issues they are trying to address. His analysis echoes an important 2012 post by Richard Kline, Progressively Losing.
Read more...Bill Black shreds a remarkably rancid anti-Greek screed.
Read more...Did the creditors put forward a device that might have allowed for a way to finesse each side’s red lines on pension “reform”?
Read more...TThe vote today on Trade Adjustment Assistance is set to begin in the House at 11:00 AM. If it fails, Fast Track will not come to a vote and TPP will be dead. TAA is in trouble and your calls could make the difference. Call your Representative this morning, and if you can, enlist friends, family, and colleagues.
Read more...Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging interview on the state of financial capital, with emphasis on fresh events in Ukraine and Russia.
Read more...This post presents the latest whip count on the Fast Track vote and how support is weakening among Republicans. Please keep up your calls to Representatives against the bill. You can find phone numbers here.
Read more...Syriza thought that the economy (and the world) would stand still and wait for them to convince everybody else about the righteousness of their views – without ever getting into negotiating on the details. Rightly or wrongly, this didn’t happen.
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