International Trade committee  Thanks for the opportunity. As an economist over more than 50 years of study and teaching, I oppose the TPP because it's about neither “free” nor “trade”. I'll give you a 55-minute lecture in two minutes. The point that I think people have to realize is that when you cite economists and economists' models, the model of free trade that predicts some benefits from free trade does not predict any increase in jobs from free trade.