(11/12/2015) Now that the TPP text has been released, I have read at least some parts of it in detail. It seems to me that it does what the negotiators said it does.
Category Archives: Asia
TPP Critics’ Nighttime Fears Fade by Light of Day
(10/11/2015) The TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) that was finally agreed among trade negotiators of 12 Pacific countries on October 5 came as a triumph over long odds. Tremendous political obstacles, domestic and international, had to be overcome over the last five years. Now each country has to decide whether to ratify the agreement.
Misinterpreting Chinese Intervention in Financial Markets
(9/7/2015) It is tempting to view economic events in China through a single template: the view that they are driven by government intervention because the authorities haven’t learned to let the market operate.
