Is the TPP DOA? Hardly....

Is the Trans Pacific Partnership dead on arrival? Is the TPP goose cooked before it's even been put before national legislatures? How is that possible when the text has yet to be made public? Are national election campaigns in Canada and the United States complicating matters? Sure? But is the TPP actually dead already? Hardly.....  In 1897, the New York Journal erroneously reported that the towering American literary figure Mark Twain had died, to which Twain famously responded: "The report of my death was an exaggeration." The same might be said of the TPP.

The road ahead for the TPP is going to be rough. But the early reports of the demise of the TPP are exaggerated.

Hell in a hand basket....(September Roundup)

September has been rather chaotic, so much so that every time I sat down to draft a post, what I was writing seemed to be overtaken by events within a day or so. So, I thought I'd just throw a few things on the table-- or in the handbasket, as the saying goes-- as I have seen them unfold.