Quoted: The President On TPP And His Economic Legacy

The New York Times , in the upcoming Sunday magazine, runs a lengthy piece about President Obama's reflections on his economic legacy, in which he explains his support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership as an effort to assert some control over “irreversible” global trends. Obama also argues his economic record has been “vastly underappreciated,” especially the recovery from the economic meltdown of late 2008-early 2009. “I actually compare our economic performance to how, historically, countries that have wrenching financial crises perform,”...