As Wall Street Sinks Global Markets, China’s Economic Policies Build Independence & Immunity

China has been faced with — and continued to grow throughout — a previous U.S.-triggered global recession just under a decade ago. While the current condition of the markets is nothing like the end of 2008, there is still the same fear in the West that China is somehow on the brink of catastrophe.

James Carey
By James Carey

BEIJING (Analysis) -- The recent economic “correction” in the U.S. markets, which saw stocks drop back down from recent record-highs, has begun to spread to the east, reaching the stock exchanges in Tokyo, Taiwan and Shanghai. While all three of these markets depend, to some extent, on the performance of Wall Street, one is likely to emerge

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Leaked Deutsche Bank Speech Shows Clinton Asking Wall Street To Police Itself, Supporting US Pivot To Asia

Clinton’s October 2014 speech to Deutsche Bank was leaked as part of WikiLeaks’ archive of John Podesta’s Gmail account, revealing more of the nominee’s agenda for the financial sector and global affairs.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton waves to supporter as she arrives at a town hall meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Coralville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)S

  MINNEAPOLIS --- With just days to go before the election, a two-year-old speech to a prominent global bank provides new insight into Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s possible agenda if she takes control of the White House. Clinton delivered the speech on Oct. 7, 2014 to Deutsche Bank in New York, but the content of that speech and an

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Leaked: ‘New TTIP’ Could Undermine Global Action On Climate Change

Unlike global trade deals global climate agreements currently have no enforcement mechanism.

Zachary Davies Boren
By Zachary Davies Boren
Tens of thousands of protestors attend a demonstration against the free trade agreements TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A globe-spanning but little-known trade deal could be used to lock-in low environmental standards and undermine national efforts to tackle climate change, according to an Energydesk analysis of newly leaked documents. Greenpeace Netherlands has obtained and published key chapters of The Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) currently being

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Obama Scrambles To Pass TPP As Corporate Tribunals Face Scrutiny

Though opposition to TPP has typically focused on the threat of losing American jobs, another concern is coming front and center: loss of sovereignty through a byzantine process known as investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS).

Dan Wright
By Dan Wright
Japan US Trade

Originally published at Shadowproof. With opposition mounting, President Barack Obama is scrambling to jam the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal through Congress before his term ends in 2017. Both major party presidential nominees—former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and businessman Donald Trump—have publicly stated they oppose TPP

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Bernie Sanders Calls On Top Dems To Drop Lame Duck TPP Push

TPP “will cost American jobs, harm the environment, increase the cost of prescription drugs, and threaten our ability to protect public health”

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaks during a town hall meeting

Hillary Clinton may not have heeded progressives' call to clearly say she'll urge the White House and her fellow party members to oppose a "lame-duck" vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has done just that, calling on Democratic Congressional leadership to publicly oppose a post-Election Day vote on the

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Hillary Clinton Backs Away From TPP

Clinton comes out swinging against trade deal she once supported—but fails to explicitly lead against a lame duck vote on Trans Pacific Partnership

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gives a speech on the economy after touring Futuramic Tool & Engineering, in Warren, Mich., Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday offered her "strongest words yet against the TPP," according to one progressive organization—but whether it will be enough to convince skeptics remains to be seen. In an economic policy speech delivered in Warren, Michigan, Clinton said her "message to every worker in Michigan and

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