Portside

'Based on the leaks - and the history of arrangements in past trade pacts - it is easy to infer the shape of the whole TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership], and it doesn’t look good. There is a real risk that it will benefit the wealthiest sliver of the American and global elite at the expense of everyone else. The fact that such a plan is under consideration at all is testament to how deeply inequality reverberates through our economic policies.'