Besides stopping TPP, the focus of my post earlier this week, Hillary Clinton is responding to Trump on trade with proposed measures to counter offshoring by US companies.  Once again I cite her recent economic policy speech in Detroit: Right now, when a corporation outsources jobs and production, it can

At a time when pandering politicians scapegoat trade, it is unfortunate to see some of the world’s greatest economists join, incorrectly, in the chorus.  Dani Rodrik and Joseph Stiglitz have recent articles in Project Syndicate doing just this. For example, Stiglitz argues that “in the US, the bottom 90%

Based upon a re-examination of the case by Greece's highest court, former statistics chief Andreas Georgiou will again face criminal charges in relation to changing the estimates of Greece's deficit made by his staff:  it is apparently alleged that Georgiou, a long-time IMF technocrat

Via Inside US Trade, this is from the draft Statement of Administrative Action for the TPP: 1. Implementing Bill ... g. Dispute Settlement Section 105(a) of the bill authorizes the President to establish within the Department of Commerce an office responsible for providing administrative assistance to dispute settlement panels established

This is the first of three posts on the challenges that Hillary Clinton faces on trade in campaigning against her rival Donald Trump. Heading to Detroit last week fast on the heels of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton outlined her own economic plan and took some effective swipes at Trump'

The usual suspects will doubtless be outraged by Trump’s economic policy speech today in Detroit, where he declared in almost no uncertain terms autarchy (a purely national self-sufficient economy) as the goal of his economic plan:  “American cars will travel the roads, American planes will connect our cities,

Global Arbitration Review published a summary of an interview with Gary Born about international arbitration. Here's an excerpt, focusing on the investment arbitration part: Interviewed as part of a New York International Arbitration Centre event in memory of its late founding chair, Judith Kaye, Born addressed a range

From a press conference today: Q    Thank you, Mr. President.  You're here today touting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Hillary Clinton is against it.  Her vice presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, has now reversed himself and is now against it.  Donald Trump is, too, meaning that the next President

Political scientists Todd Allee and Andrew Lugg have a new article showing that the TPP is textually more like U.S. FTAs than it is like the FTAs of other TPP parties: We evaluate the TPP in a new way by systematically comparing the recently-released text of the TPP