October 01, 2020

01 Octubre 2020

It is reasonable to ask how much money people should expect to pay for their insurance if ... Trump gets his way and eliminates the ACA.

• InequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Patent Monopolies in Prescription Drugs Cause Corruption # 43,508

By Dean BakerDean Baker

September 30, 2020

30 Septiembre 2020

Indiscriminate use of tariffs is likely to lead to large-scale corruption, as corporations use their political power to gain special treatment.

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How’s that Recovery Going?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

September 28, 2020

28 Septiembre 2020

Donald Trump boasts endlessly about the economic recovery and insists that people are doing great now. The numbers disagree.

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Your Periodic Reminder that CEOs Maximize CEO Pay, Not Shareholder Returns

By Dean BakerDean Baker

September 24, 2020

24 Septiembre 2020

There is considerable evidence that CEOs do not earn their $20 million pay.

• COVID-19CoronavirusEconomic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónInequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

It’s Not Vaccine Nationalism, It’s Vaccine Idiocy

By Dean BakerDean Baker

September 22, 2020

22 Septiembre 2020

The pandemic gave us an extraordinary opportunity to experiment with an alternative mechanism for financing research that could have enormously benefitted public health, both in the United States and elsewhere. The failure to have a visible alternative wi

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Are Red State Governors Getting Their People Killed to Help Donald Trump’s Re-Election Chances?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

September 21, 2020

21 Septiembre 2020

This is an incredibly ghoulish question, that would be absurd to ask in normal times. But these are not normal times.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónGlobalization and TradeGlobalización y comercioInequalityLa DesigualdadIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: Even More than Klein and Pettis Say

By Dean BakerDean Baker

September 18, 2020

18 Septiembre 2020

The focus should be on reducing the protectionist barriers ... and on limiting the protections for intellectual property that raise the prices we pay for a wide range of items, and hand the money to a relatively small elite in a position to benefit.

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Robert Samuelson Hangs It Up

By Dean BakerDean Baker

September 14, 2020

14 Septiembre 2020

Robert Samuelson, the Washington Post columnist who has provided so much material for this blog over the years, announced his retirement today.

Is Repealing Section 230 the Way to Fix Facebook?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

September 09, 2020

09 Septiembre 2020

We should never be in the position of having to rely on the good will of a billionaire to allow democracy to work. Repealing Section 230 will put an end to this problem.

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Blue States are Not Wrong to Want to Restore the Deduction for State and Local Taxes

By Dean BakerDean Baker

September 08, 2020

08 Septiembre 2020

It seems very plausible to me that the higher effective tax rate without the federal deduction will cause more rich people to move out of state, meaning they will have less money to pay for education, infrastructure, and social services.