November 07, 2021

07 Noviembre 2021

As it now stands President Biden has created 5,583,000 jobs in his first nine months in the White House, compared to a loss of 2,876,000 jobs in the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency.

• Intellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Note to Margot Sanger-Katz: Public Funding Can be a Substitute for High Drug Prices for Incentivizing Innovation

By Dean BakerDean Baker

November 06, 2021

06 Noviembre 2021

Incredibly, Sanger-Katz never mentions the possibility that public funding could be a substitute for some or all of the money from venture capitalists.

• EnvironmentUnited StatesEE. UU.

Combatting Global Warming: The Solution to China’s Demographic “Crisis”

By Dean BakerDean Baker

November 03, 2021

03 Noviembre 2021

China has a large domestic clean energy sector which can stand to gain by further spending on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

• Health and Social ProgramsLos Programas Sociales y de SaludInequalityLa DesigualdadUnited StatesEE. UU.

NYT Spreads Fox News Style Misinformation on Family Leave and Childcare

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 31, 2021

31 Octubre 2021

Most wealthy countries with paid leave actually have higher rates of women's labor force participation than the United States.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Third Quarter GDP: More Good than Bad

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 29, 2021

29 Octubre 2021

In the pre-pandemic period, no one would have considered 2.0 percent growth particularly bad.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Between 1989 and 2020, Spending on Prescription Drugs Rose from 0.6 Percent of GDP to 2.4 Percent of GDP

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 21, 2021

21 Octubre 2021

The current level of spending of roughly $500 billion a year comes to more than $1,500 for every person in the country.

• InequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Rich Jerks in Space

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 20, 2021

20 Octubre 2021

Wealth as a bookkeeping entry should be largely a matter of indifference to the rest of us. When the super-rich pull away large amounts of resources for their fun and games, that is a big problem.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

The National Debt and Patent/Copyright Monopolies

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 18, 2021

18 Octubre 2021

Any serious discussion of the burden of the debt must also talk about the trillions of dollars of patent and copyright rents that the government is committing the country to when it grants these monopolies.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónWall StreetEl Mundo Financiero

If This is a Wage-Price Spiral, Why Are Profits Soaring?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 16, 2021

16 Octubre 2021

It hardly seems as though businesses are being forced by costs to push up prices. It instead looks like they are taking advantage of presumably temporary shortages to increase their profit margins.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónInequalityLa Desigualdad

Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve Board

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 15, 2021

15 Octubre 2021

What we are seeing right now is a Federal Reserve Board that is doing the right thing in the face of the hysteria of its critics. The critics want to see it move rapidly to slow the economy so that they can again get good help cheap.