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• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

With Living Standards Up, Increasing Reports on Struggling Families is a Media Call, not a Reflection of Reality

By Dean BakerDean Baker

February 14, 2022

14 Febrero 2022

If news outlets are giving more coverage to struggling families today than they did before the pandemic, that is a result of their editorial policy, not a reflection of reality.
If news outlets are giving more coverage to struggling families today than they did before the pandemic, that is a result of their editorial policy, not a reflection of reality.

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• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

More Quick Thoughts on Inflation After the January CPI

By Dean BakerDean Baker

February 13, 2022

13 Febrero 2022

There are good reasons to believe that inflation is more likely heading lower than higher. This means the Fed should be cautious in its moves and wait to get a clearer picture of the problem it is facing.
There are good reasons to believe that inflation is more likely heading lower than higher. This means the Fed should be cautious in its moves and wait to get a clearer picture of the problem it is facing.

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• Intellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

The Big Lie of the Elites

By Dean BakerDean Baker

February 09, 2022

09 Febrero 2022

The key point, that is repeatedly misrepresented in this piece, is that the harm to the working class in the last four decades was the result of deliberate policy, not something that just happened.
The key point, that is repeatedly misrepresented in this piece, is that the harm to the working class in the last four decades was the result of deliberate policy, not something that just happened.

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• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Marketplace Radio Gives Us the Latest Bad News on the Economy: A Glut of Retail Goods

By Dean BakerDean Baker

February 02, 2022

02 Febrero 2022

In the old days, we might have thought that too many goods, with too few buyers, might have meant lower prices.
In the old days, we might have thought that too many goods, with too few buyers, might have meant lower prices.

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• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

More Thoughts on the Great Inflation Debate

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 29, 2022

29 Enero 2022

We don’t want to see anything like the surge in unemployment from the 1981–82 recession, especially if it’s intended to combat an inflation problem that does not exist.
We don’t want to see anything like the surge in unemployment from the 1981–82 recession, especially if it’s intended to combat an inflation problem that does not exist.

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• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Washington Post Tries to Tell Readers that Fourth Quarter Jump In Inventories Was Due to Higher Prices

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 27, 2022

27 Enero 2022

It's not clear what the Washington Post is referring to.
It's not clear what the Washington Post is referring to.

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• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Washington Post Says Life Was Bleak for Workers on Eve of Pandemic

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 22, 2022

22 Enero 2022

If workers are experiencing serious hardship today, things must have been really awful for them in December 2019, when most workers had lower real wages.
If workers are experiencing serious hardship today, things must have been really awful for them in December 2019, when most workers had lower real wages.

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• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Are Used Car Prices Bankrupting Workers?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 21, 2022

21 Enero 2022

While everyone has been seeing the huge rise in gas prices over the last year, used car prices have risen almost as rapidly.
While everyone has been seeing the huge rise in gas prices over the last year, used car prices have risen almost as rapidly.

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• COVID-19CoronavirusIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Gaslighting on the Big Lie by Thomas Edsall in the NYT

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 19, 2022

19 Enero 2022

For political purposes it is very much to the advantage of these powerful elites to pretend that their wealth is just the result of the free market, but it is not true, and it is gaslighting to pretend it is.
For political purposes it is very much to the advantage of these powerful elites to pretend that their wealth is just the result of the free market, but it is not true, and it is gaslighting to pretend it is.

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• COVID-19CoronavirusIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Expensive Drugs and Multi-Million Dollar Salaries for Firefighters

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 19, 2022

19 Enero 2022

Do we want good health care, or are we more interested in making a small number of people very rich.
Do we want good health care, or are we more interested in making a small number of people very rich.

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