• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Journalism Lesson for Ron Elving at NPR’s Weekend Edition: You Don’t Know What Republican Members of Congress “Think” About Aid to State and Local Governments

December 05, 2020

05 Diciembre 2020

I'm not sure why it is so hard for reporters to just tell us what politicians say and do, instead of telling us what they think and believe.

• Globalization and TradeGlobalización y comercioInequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Lessons for Steve Rattner from Folks Who Actually Remember the 1990s

By Dean BakerDean Baker

December 02, 2020

02 Diciembre 2020

Many progressives have better memories than Rattner, which is why they are determined to not have the Biden presidency be a repeat of the Clinton presidency.

• InequalityLa Desigualdad

Repeal Section 230 and Never Again Have to Worry About What Mark Zuckerberg Thinks About Anything

By Dean BakerDean Baker

December 02, 2020

02 Diciembre 2020

The net effect would be to make Facebook much smaller, so what Mark Zuckerberg chose to favor or ban would not make much difference to anyone.

• InequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

NYT Wants to Talk About Higher Wages, but Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Real Reasons Wages are Low

By Dean BakerDean Baker

November 29, 2020

29 Noviembre 2020

The bigger problem is the assertion that the failure of pay to keep pace with productivity growth over the last four decades is due to higher profits.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

More Bad News About the Pandemic Recession: Longer Hours

By Dean BakerDean Baker

November 28, 2020

28 Noviembre 2020

One way of dealing with this reduction in employment opportunities is to have shorter work weeks/work years. Unfortunately, it seems we are now headed in the wrong direction.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónInequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Why are the Free Traders All Protectionists? Vaccines and Sharing Knowledge (Fun for Thanksgiving)

By Dean BakerDean Baker

November 25, 2020

25 Noviembre 2020

But the fact remains, protection for manufactured goods is universally derided in outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Protectionism in the form of patent and copyright monopolies, which is hugely more costly, is never even

• InequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

News for Bill Gates: Capitalism Is Still Capitalism Without Patent Monopolies

By Dean BakerDean Baker

November 23, 2020

23 Noviembre 2020

Gates apparently is not aware that the U.S. government paid for Moderna's research and testing costs for its vaccines.

• Budget

Fighting Disinformation: Maybe Reporters Can Try Putting Big Budget Numbers in Contexts that Make Them Understandable

By Dean BakerDean Baker

November 22, 2020

22 Noviembre 2020

If reporters are really interested in countering the nonsense thrown out by the right, writing big numbers in ways that actually provide information to their audience would be a big help.

• COVID-19CoronavirusIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

How Many Lives Would Have Been Saved if We Had Collaborated on Vaccines With China?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

November 21, 2020

21 Noviembre 2020

It makes sense to cooperate in areas of mutual benefit. Developing vaccines and treatments against the pandemic would have been an obvious example.

• COVID-19CoronavirusIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Moderna Vaccine Follows Pfizer with Very Strong Results on Effectiveness: What This Means

By Dean BakerDean Baker

November 19, 2020

19 Noviembre 2020

Moderna’s success also demonstrates an important economic point: Having the government pay a company to develop a vaccine is not the same thing as throwing money in the toilet.

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Journalism Lesson for Ron Elving at NPR’s Weekend Edition: You Don’t Know What Republican Members of Congress “Think” About Aid to State and Local Governments

Lessons for Steve Rattner from Folks Who Actually Remember the 1990s

Repeal Section 230 and Never Again Have to Worry About What Mark Zuckerberg Thinks About Anything

NYT Wants to Talk About Higher Wages, but Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Real Reasons Wages are Low

More Bad News About the Pandemic Recession: Longer Hours

Why are the Free Traders All Protectionists? Vaccines and Sharing Knowledge (Fun for Thanksgiving)

News for Bill Gates: Capitalism Is Still Capitalism Without Patent Monopolies

Fighting Disinformation: Maybe Reporters Can Try Putting Big Budget Numbers in Contexts that Make Them Understandable

How Many Lives Would Have Been Saved if We Had Collaborated on Vaccines With China?

Moderna Vaccine Follows Pfizer with Very Strong Results on Effectiveness: What This Means

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