Nobel Laureate in Economics Joseph Stiglitz, Adam Hersh: The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade

NEW YORK – As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),  More...

Nobel Laureate in Economics, Joseph Stiglitz: The Secret Corporate Takeover

NEW YORK – The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in fact, they were managed trade agreements, More...

Harvard Professor Jeffrey Frankel: New and Improved Trade Agreements?

Trade is high on the agenda in the United States, Europe, and much of Asia this year. In the US, where concern has been heightened byweak recent trade numbers, President Barack Obama is pushing for More...

Harvard Professor Jeffrey Frankel: The Non-Problem of Chinese Currency Manipulation

 America’s two political parties rarely agree, but one thing that unites them is their anger about “currency manipulation, ” especially by China. Perhaps spurred by the recent appreciation of the dollar More...