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I find this whole thing incomprehensible.

Obama is for it, but Warren,Hillary,Trump,Stein are not for it.

Bernie supporters don't trust Hillary to be against it. McAuliffe said Hillary is actually for it.

Assange and Wikileaks say it will lead to the fascist rule of the oligarchy controlling every small part of our lives.

Then there the whole eff stance on it.https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

I find it all so mind boggling.

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The best analysis comes from actual expert in international trade: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/opinion/krugman-no-big-dea...

I just can't believe Krugman because of a bunch of articles I've read about the secrecy involved. I don't understand how any one actually knows anything about it.

http://www.vox.com/cards/trans-pacific-partnership/what-is-t...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/04/ttip-t...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/04/13/tpp_trans...

What? The agreement was negotiated in secret, as is convention to prevent interference during negotiation. The full text has been available for a few months now. It's right here: https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/tran...

wow thanks.

I typically like Krugman but he has clearly not focusing on the real issues on TPP. I am in favor of free trade and don't find TPP in any real way supports that.

> I am in favor of free trade and don't find TPP in any real way supports that.

That's his argument.

Sorry I was a bozo in not being clear. I feel he (not only in this piece from 2014 but in pieces since) underweights / ignores the non-trade factors and the undemocratic process by which it emerged.

He touches on the corporatist issues but the strongest statement he can make is "doubtful". He sees the whole things through a perspective of political process wangling and not how it is on its own merits (or lack thereof).

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