PPI - Radically Pragmatic
  • Donate
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Locations
    • Careers
  • People
  • Projects
  • Our Work
  • Events
  • Donate

Our Work

Forbes: Hillary Clinton and Trade: Not a Marriage Made in Heaven

  • April 1, 2015
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

PPI senior fellow for trade and global opportunity, Ed Gerwin, today was quoted in a Forbes piece regarding Hillary Clinton and how Democrats approach to trade:

“The problem is there is a strain within the Democratic Party and the progressive movement that is of the view that support for any kind of free trade agreement is an absolute non-starter,” said Ed Gerwin, a trade expert with the Progress Policy Institute. “For these folks, it has become a part of their almost religious canon that you can’t support these FTAs.”

That’s counter-productive, he said, “because if that’s the attitude they take, then they lose all influence in the trade debate. People write off these hard-core anti-trade people because they’re not going to support you, whatever you do.”

Read the piece in its entirety at Forbes.

Related Work

Trade Fact  |  June 11, 2025

U.S. earnings from international student tuition above those for gold, silver, platinum, diamonds, and gems

  • Ed Gresser
Trade Fact  |  June 4, 2025

‘Congress shall have the power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises’

  • Ed Gresser
Trade Fact  |  May 28, 2025

Denmark is a four-generation ally and a good neighbor

  • Ed Gresser
Press Release  |  May 23, 2025

PPI: Trump’s Tariffs Are Reckless, Constitutionally Unsound

  • Ed Gresser
Trade Fact  |  May 21, 2025

Polling: U.S. public is against Trump tariffs by about 60%-36%

  • Ed Gresser
Trade Fact  |  May 14, 2025

The U.S. trade deficit has nearly doubled this year

  • Ed Gresser
  • Never miss an update:

  • Subscribe to our newsletter
PPI Logo
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Donate
  • Careers
  • © 2025 Progressive Policy Institute. All Rights Reserved.
  • |
  • Privacy Policy
  • |
  • Privacy Settings