Publications

CEPR Spotlight: The Media

CEPR Co-founder and Senior Economist Dean Baker had his Twitter account, @DeanBaker13, “permanently suspended”

Dawn Niederhauser / December 06, 2022

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COVID-19

The November Jobs Report Was Not as Strong as Advertised

Taken together, the stronger than expected job growth, coupled with the big jump in wages, seems to indicate that we have a serious problem with inflation. The consensus seems to be that the Fed may have to keep the rate hikes in overdrive.

Dean Baker / December 04, 2022

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Jobs

Economy Adds 263,000 Jobs in November, Unemployment Steady at 3.7 Percent

Workers

Wages grew at a 5.1 percent annual rate over the last three months.

Dean Baker / December 02, 2022

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IMF

Special Drawing Rights

The International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights: Why a New Issuance is Necessary and Feasible at this Time, and Would Save Many Lives

The SDR issuance last year probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives, if we use, e.g., the Bank for International Settlements’ research on the relation between recessions and mortality.

Mark Weisbrot and Joe Sammut / November 30, 2022

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Preview: What to Expect in the November Jobs Report

The big questions will be whether wage growth has slowed to a pace consistent with the Fed’s inflation target and whether job growth has slowed to a sustainable pace.

Dean Baker / November 30, 2022

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Housing

Inequality

Census and WaPo at Odds Over Effect of Inflation on Low-Income Families

Dean Baker / November 30, 2022

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Escobari and Hoover’s “Difference Estimates” Are Driven by Geography — Not by “Fraud”

This is the eighth in a series of blog posts addressing a report by Diego Escobari and Gary Hoover covering the 2019 presidential election in Bolivia.

David Rosnick / November 30, 2022

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Media

OMG, a Right-Wing Jerk Can Buy Twitter! Media Concentration Matters

Dean Baker / November 29, 2022

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Haiti

Regional Leaders Raise Doubts Over US-Backed Plan to Send Foreign Military to Haiti

US Foreign Policy

Jake Johnston / November 28, 2022

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Crypto

Global Finance

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Truly Effective Philanthropy: Teaching

We should all recognize that Sam Bankman-Fried is much smarter than the rest of us. After all, outwardly he looks to be one of the biggest frauds of all time. By the age of 30 he amassed a fortune that dwarfs that of your average billionaire. He did it by

Dean Baker / November 25, 2022

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Inflation

On Thanksgiving 2022, Non-Health Consumption is Far Higher Than Before Pandemic

The media’s coverage of the economy in the last year and a half has inflation playing a starring, and almost exclusive, role. Items like the 50-year low in unemployment reached earlier this year have barely been mentioned.

Dean Baker / November 24, 2022

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Escobari and Hoover’s “Difference Estimates” Must Not Be Taken at Face Value

This is the seventh in a series of blog posts addressing a report by Diego Escobari and Gary Hoover covering the 2019 presidential election in Bolivia.

David Rosnick / November 23, 2022

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Escobari and Hoover Are Careless with the Official Data

Escobari and Hoover calculate party vote shares in a nonsensical manner. While this does not have a large effect on their estimates, it often does matter to their discussion of results.

David Rosnick / November 21, 2022

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COVID-19

Crypto

Intellectual Property

The Pandemic Treaty, Crypto, and Inequality

Dean Baker / November 18, 2022

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NYT Says Europe Can Meet Its Solar Manufacturing Targets by Spending Just Over 0.1 Percent of GDP

The projected cost of building solar manufacturing facilities will be a bit more than 0.1 percent of its GDP over this period.

Dean Baker / November 17, 2022

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Inflation

Falling Import Prices and Moderate Producer Prices: More Evidence the Fed’s Work Might Be Done

We continue to see evidence that inflation is slowing sharply, from slower wage growth, to sharply lower rental inflation, and falling import prices.

Dean Baker / November 17, 2022

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Elon Musk Twitter Purchase Furthers the Media Concentration that Harms Democracy

Companies must respond and take action when violations are called to their attention.

Mark Weisbrot / November 17, 2022

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