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Trans-Pacific Partnership: Crashed and Burnt?

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Jun 16, 2015
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After seven years of bargaining, the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact was seemingly within reach, only to become the latest casualty of the American government's crippling dysfunction.

This time it was President Obama's own Democratic Party that did a number on him. Labor unions had threatened to cut off campaign funding to any members…

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