Can We Be As Smart As Wal-Mart?
You gotta give the boys in Bentonville their due: they try to figure out every way possible to wriggle off the hook. In the current issue of Business Week (requires subscription), senior writer and...
View ArticleJohn Edwards–On Trade, Leading The Way Again
A couple of weeks ago, I noted how The Wall Street Journal had acknowledged that John Edwards was dictating the debate in the Democratic Party. Today, he’s doing it again. This time on global trade,...
View ArticleScalia et al Make Up Corporate Constitutional Rights
It is has been pointed out by others that when the Republicans chose to organize the reading of the Constitution on the House floor, they conveniently left out parts they didn’t like. But, they have...
View Article“Free Trade”: The Capitulation Continues, Middle Class Weeps
If you share the belief that the greatest economic challenge we face is stopping the stupefying global class warfare underway, then, we have to be quite clear about the tools that support the attack...
View Article“Free Trade” Bribe: The Retraining Scam
Every so-called "free trade" deal that has shimmied its way through Congress has been greased with legalized bribery, starting with NAFTA in 1993, which was the king of all "what will buy your...
View ArticleDemocratic Tomfoolery: Panama and The White House’s “Ship Our Jobs Overseas”...
Why doesn’t Bill Daley, the White House Chief of Staff, just come right out and say it: we’re going to ram through these so-called "free trade" deals because, dammit, we need that corporate cash...
View ArticleWhere Are The Headlines For This?
Guarantee you this won’t merit front-page news: Progress on a free trade deal with Colombia has cleared the way for the White House to seek Congressional approval of a package of trade agreements...
View ArticleThe “Training DisInformation and Unemployment Act” AKA “Free Trade” Deals
Sigh. Dumb economics again–promoted by a whole lot of good Democrats who just cannot embrace the idea that you cannot fix so-called "free trade" deals by pretending to retrain people for new jobs....
View ArticleWal-Mart Slaves And The Sham of Trade “Enforcement”
Reaching back all the way to NAFTA (oh, so ancient history…1993), there has been a complete lie and sham underlying virtually every trade deal post-NAFTA–don’t worry, so-called "free trade"...
View ArticleObama Pushing Job-Killing, Middle-Class Destroying, Murder-Endorsing...
Those bills are also called the so-called "free trade" deals with Colombia, South Korea and Panama. The president is making a concerted push to get these bills rammed through Congress by August....
View ArticleWhen Political Paralysis Is FABULOUS For The Middle Class
Not a day goes by when we don’t hear from the mouth of some talking head or read the words of a transcriber of press releases (formerly known as a "journalist") about the awful "partisanship" or...
View ArticleThe Greatest Nation On Earth Shouldn’t Jam “Free Trade” Down The Earth’s Throat
I hate to ruin a good party–or at least the world of the liberal bloviators who want everyone to stand in line and praise the president’s speech last night. Heck, I am glad he was there to push for...
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