Outside voices: TTIP 2.0 eyed for a plethora of benefits

Want to solve many of the world’s biggest, most vexing problems? Dust off an old idea, say two Brookings Institution analysts – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Sanjay Patnaik, director of the think tank’s Center on Regulations and Markets, and senior research associate James Kunhardt write this week that a free trade deal between the U.S. and the European Union could help fight inflation, “mitigate” a recession and bolster allied efforts to combat Russian aggression. “A TTIP successor would...