Boosters of 'free trade' agreements - like the Trans Pacific Partnership that's being signed today - like to make big promises, writes Pete Dolack: trillions of dollars of economic gains, billions of dollars of investment, millions of new jobs. But there's only one certainty, and it's one they never mention: the permanent redistribution of power and income from working people to capital.
… to be lost in the US alone. Canada, Mexico, Japan and Australia would each suffer jobs … That 85% can't be reached without the US or Japan, effectively giving those countries a …