New Balance claims Defense Department strung it along on military sneaker contract

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25. Jeremy Warner did a good business article about the TPP & it's relevance, covered misconceptions.

Left and right have been oddly united in their suspicion of these proposed free trade treaties; on the right, they are depicted as a further, stultifying regulatory intrusion on national sovereignty, while on the left they are seen as an undemocratic corporate racket. If you loathe the European Union, you’ll hate TTIP, which seems to sanction a still grander invasion by foreign jurisdictions, multi-nationals and arbitrators of national sovereignty.

A perhaps more pertinent criticism, however, is just how out of date such traditionally framed, free trade agreements already are, for the nature of trade is changing in ways that have left regulators and politicians trailing in their wake. You’ll be pleased to know that free trade is alive and well, only these days it is championed by the digital economy, which TPP and TTIP barely touch on, focusing instead on old fashioned concerns around standards, public procurement, and agriculture.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/05/if-you-despise-the-european-union-youll-hate-the-iniquities-of-t/