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GOP Gets Tough on TPP

posted by Richard Katz on August 06, 2014

Found in Japan, US, categorized in International Trade and Investment

Tags: TPP Japan GOP

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For the same reason, while the total number of employees showed zero growth in June, unemployment rose from 3.5% in May to 3.7%. The 120,000 additional people who joined the labor force in that month could not find jobs.

Abstract

Many in Japan were shocked when Republicans on Capitol Hill began castigating President Barack Obama for being too soft on Japan regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations.

About Richard Katz

Richard Katz is Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, the New York correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai, a leading Japanese business magazine, and formerly the editor of The Oriental Economist Report, a monthly newsletter on Japan.

Mr. Katz has taught about Japan’s economy as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, and as a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.

Mr. Katz is the author of two books on Japan's economic travails and has just finished a third book on reviving entrepreeurship in Japan.

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