2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Clinton Policies Have Hurt Women" [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)it conflicts with so called "competition policy" which is incorporated into our trade policy.
A bunch of new concepts have become big drivers of policy - they emerged out of the GATS negotiations in the 90s- which has been a real disaster- as in worst policy mistake ever- but the reasons are obscure and non-obvious to people. For example, GATS caused the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1998 leading to the massive amounts of lending in the mid 2000s and the collapse of the housing bubble and subsequent huge bailout which cost taxpayers something like 12 trillion dollars to date and destroyed a good chunk of the equity of many American families. GATS is also the reason why our health care is so horrible and they refuse to fix it.
A good source of info that is clear and easy to read is Policy Alternatives in Canada at http://policyalternatives.ca the best source of info in the US is public citizen, at http://citizen.org