July 16, 2021

16 Julio 2021

The impact of this pace of job loss in the utility sector would be dwarfed by other factors, like government-granted patent and copyright monopolies or the overall unemployment rate, in determining the extent of inequality in the country.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

New York Times Goes to Looney Tunes Land On the Fed

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 12, 2021

12 Julio 2021

This is bizarre, because people who read the news section of the NYT would know that workers have more bargaining power in the economy right now than at any point since at least the late 1990s.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

News for Washington Post: People Don’t See Economic Growth, they Read About it in the News

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 12, 2021

12 Julio 2021

If the economy is in fact growing slowly in 2023, as currently projected, people will only be aware of this fact because news outlets and politicians choose to highlight it.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Invented Inflation: A Big Part of the Real Inflation of the 1970s

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 09, 2021

09 Julio 2021

In the 1970s, actually in the late 1960s also, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) had an error in its construction that led it to overstate the rate of inflation relative to the current measure.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Coming to Grips with Inflation Fears

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 08, 2021

08 Julio 2021

The difference between the view that the adjustment process will...involve some inflation, and the inflation hawks’ view...is whether the inflationary pressures are likely to be enduring. The latest evidence supports a temporary disruption.

• Democracy

Buying Democracy in a Good Way

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 07, 2021

07 Julio 2021

Democrats can get around a Republican filibuster on voting rights: make it about money.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

The June Jobs Report: More Good News on the Economy

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 05, 2021

05 Julio 2021

Given the depths to which the economy sank last spring, and the huge surge in coronavirus cases and deaths this winter, you have to be pretty happy with the way things stand now with the economy and the pandemic.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Cheap Fun Saturday: Job Growth Under Biden and Trump

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 03, 2021

03 Julio 2021

Biden has now created more jobs than Trump lost.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Trains and Population Density: U.S. and Europe

By Dean BakerDean Baker

July 01, 2021

01 Julio 2021

The issue is not building passenger lines from New York to Fairbanks, it’s about connecting cities that actually are reasonably close to together.

• InequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

When We Keep Giving Money to Rich People, Why Are We Surprised by Inequality?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

June 28, 2021

28 Junio 2021

I’m one of those old-fashion sorts who thinks it’s simpler just not to give them all the money in the first place. Here again is my short list of ways to not give so much money to rich people.