[expat_panama]

Polling results show that most Americans don't know much about commerce and they won't let that fact get in the way their opinions.

[ConservativeMind]

So, are you for the TPP?

[Pearls Before Swine]

5000 pages of TPP doesn’t sound like “free” trade. It sounds like a grab-bag of special interest side-deals, and if Obama is for it, those deals won’t be a net benefit to the USA. Of course, we don’t know what’s in it, as the deal is secret.

I can understand secrecy in negotiations in order to get the deal done, but not hiding it from us after the deal is on paper and subject to voting.

Bear in mind that according to the few crumbs of information that have leaked, only five of the 23 chapters of TPP are about trade; the rest are a sort of international governance treaty of the type Obama loves and the US always gets screwed over in.

I don’t know how anyone can be “for” it without knowing what it actually is.

[olezip]

Trade: On the campaign trail, both Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have become increasingly anti-free trade. Free traders may be in for a nasty surprise.

That is a misleading sentence.

Republican candidate Donald Trump favors free trade deals that benefit Americans, in stark contrast to Hillary Clinton who currently is against free trade.

But what are her positions worth; are they not available to the highest bidder?

[poobear]

Sounds like more of a cut off the pie.
“PAY TO TRADE”

[expat_panama]

We got a beautiful Monday here and for quite a while stocks have been trading in an increasingly tighter range in ever decreasing volume.  Nobody know's nottin'  --even futures traders are confused w/ some contracts upbeat and some off.  They got metals down heavy -1.38% although gold-silver prices still trade in the current range $1,339.95 - $19.84.

Reports throughout the day: Empire Manufacturing, NAHB Housing Market Index, and Net Long-Term TIC Flows.

Headlines:

The Stimulus Wore Off. What's Next? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Would Anyone Believe Clinton's 10 Million Job Promise? - Editorial, NYP
How Clinton and Trump Differ on Tax Rates - Neil Irwin, New York Times
Clinton's Economic Plan Is Recessionary - Steve Moore, Washington Times
Can the Recovery of Emerging Markets Last? - Tom Stevenson, Telegraph
Will Stock Market Hangover Follow Record Highs? - Mark DeCambre,MW
Why Robots Are a Threat to Job Security - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Don't Let Charges on Ailes Blind Us to His Genius - Steve Forbes, Forbes
U.S. Schools Are More Unequal Than We Thought - Susan Dynarski, NYT

[Mollypitcher1]

BS. Just MORE of I.D.’s pro Hillery campaigning.

[central_va]

Free Trade is a Marxist dream.