Mark Weisbrot
Senior Economist and Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Mark is a Senior Economist and Co-Director of CEPR. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. He is author of the book Failed: What the “Experts” Got Wrong About the Global Economy (Oxford University Press); is coauthor with Dean Baker of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press); and has written numerous research papers on economic policy.
His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and almost every major US newspaper as well as in Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs.
All from Mark Weisbrot
(The Los Angeles Times) Labor Has Lost Much in Past Four Decades, and Fed Threatens Recent Gains
The Los Angeles Times: Four decades of policy-driven inequality have left U.S. workers with stagnant wages, and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes now threaten to erase recent job gains.
(The Nation) The Transatlantic Alliance Will Survive Trump
The Nation: The US and European elite need each other as the global hegemony tries to hang on to its unelected position.
Venezuela: Response to Trolls
En español I have rarely responded to trolls because ? well, what’s the point? It’s not like they care about facts or logic.For example, Francisco Toro, a blogger who fulminates about Venezuela and appears in the Washington Post, has been trolling me for
(The Real News) A Note about “Our Backyard”: Advice that Thomas Shannon Might Give to Mike Pompeo
The Real News: Mark Weisbrot imagines the advice and counsel that Ambassador Shannon might offer to the new secretary of state Mike Pompeo, based particularly Shannon’s leading role in US policy in this hemisphere in the twenty-first century.
The Pact for Mexico After Five Years: How Has It Fared?
June 2018, Mark Weisbrot, Lara Merling, Rebecca Watts, and Jake Johnston
(The Nation) The Threat of a Trade War Is Overblown ? Real War Is Far More Likely
The Nation: Mark Weisbrot argues that fears of a U.S.–China trade war are overblown, warning that Trump’s real danger lies in his escalating militarism and war-hawk advisers.
Puerto Rico Needs Economic Recovery First, Not “Structural Reforms” and Debt Service Extraction
March 20, 2018, Mark Weisbrot
(The Nation) A Bogus ‘Compromise’ Senate Bill Would Prolong Atrocities in Yemen
The Nation: Mark Weisbrot warns that the U.S. is illegally aiding Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, urges the Senate to end involvement under the War Powers Resolution, and cautions that a new “compromise” bill could prolong the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
(The New York Review of Books) The Threats, Real and Imagined, of Mexico’s Election
The New York Review of Books: Mark Weisbrot argues that Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s lead in Mexico’s 2018 presidential race offers a chance for economic and political reform, despite opposition from the country’s corrupt elite and U.S. interests seeking to maintain the status quo.
The UK Economy at the Crossroads
March 2018, Mark Weisbrot and Lara Merling