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I feel very confident in saying that 2022 will be a very good year for the economy. We are looking at a situation where we have low unemployment, falling inflation, and rising real wages.

Dean Baker / 12/22/2021 12:00am

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Bolivia

Latin America and the Caribbean

Organization of American States

Spotlight

CEPR Spotlight: Bolivia

CEPR’s work looking at the 2019 coup d’etat in Bolivia that ousted the elected government was decisive in refuting the false narrative that was deployed, and unfortunately reported for nearly a year in major media, that the 2019 election was stolen.

Dawn Niederhauser / 12/22/2021 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Growth

Workers

El año 2022 será un muy buen año económico

Mi opinión podrá ser minoritaria, pero estoy muy confiado en que el 2022 será un muy buen año económico.

Dean Baker / 12/22/2021 12:00am

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We Temporarily Interrupt this Blog

12/21/2021 12:00am

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Government

Intellectual Property

Spotlight

CEPR Spotlight: Vaccines, Patents and Copyrights

CEPR has written extensively on how patent monopolies allow pharmaceutical companies to extract billions from everyday people using drug research that is already publicly funded at a fraction of the cost.

Dawn Niederhauser / 12/20/2021 12:00am

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Coronavirus

Intellectual Property

Getting Ready for the Next Pandemic: Can We Get Patent Monopolies on the Table?

We are still seeing no real debate as to whether we want to rely on these monopolies as a primary mechanism for financing medical innovation in the future.

Dean Baker / 12/20/2021 12:00am

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Ecuador

Latin America and the Caribbean

Ecuador and the Pandora Papers: Death Threats and Impunity

Fighting for financial transparency is a fight for truth and social justice that we cannot afford to give up.

Andrés Arauz / 12/20/2021 12:00am

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Ecuador

World

Andrés Arauz on CDBCs and Sovereignty

Interview with Andres on Bitcoin, the broader world of crypto & NFTs, how to think about digital and monetary sovereignties together, the geopolitics of the global payment systems, China’s efforts to control FinTech, the situation in El Salvador, and the

Andrés Arauz / 12/19/2021 12:00am

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Intellectual Property

Plans to Save the Local Newspaper

My preference for the tax credit system is both that it applies to a much broader range of material than just news, and that I think it would be far easier to implement and enforce.

Dean Baker / 12/18/2021 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Can Quitters be Winners? Lessons from the Great Resignation

Dean Baker / 12/17/2021 12:00am

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Haiti

Latin America and the Caribbean

Spotlight

US Foreign Policy

World

CEPR Spotlight: Haiti

CEPR continues to educate members of Congress and US policymakers on electoral issues and aid accountability in Haiti.

Dawn Niederhauser / 12/17/2021 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Quick Note on the Inflation Debate and November Retail Sales

People are still not spending the money banked in the pandemic. This means that we have less reason to fear excess demand driving inflation.

Dean Baker / 12/16/2021 12:00am

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Coronavirus

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Inflation Fears Shouldn’t Be a Pretext for Class War

The specter of inflation is being invoked to obstruct vital social programs in the Build Back Better bill. That’s a recipe for economic ruin.

Max B. Sawicky / 12/16/2021 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Inequality

Workers

Family Policies in the Build Back Better Act Would Reduce Burdens on Families and Provide a Better Buffer to Economic Instability

Julie Yixia Cai and Algernon Austin / 12/14/2021 12:00am

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Inequality

Spotlight

CEPR Spotlight: Work, Poverty, and Inequality

CEPR’s research and analysis supports efforts to increase the power, economic security, and well-being of today’s diverse working class.

Dawn Niederhauser / 12/14/2021 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Casey Mulligan Says Build Back Better Will Raise Childcare Costs by $27,000

But tens of millions of families with children will have better access to quality childcare. I suspect most parents will be fine with this situation.

Dean Baker / 12/14/2021 12:00am

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Private Equity

Wall Street

Private Equity in Healthcare: Profits before Patients and Workers

The time is ripe for Congressional action to curb wealth extraction from our healthcare system.

Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt / 12/14/2021 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Will We See Deflation in the Next 12 Months?

I’m not worried at this point about a deflationary spiral, but I see what, to my view, is a plausible scenario where the CPI actually goes negative in the next twelve months.

Dean Baker / 12/12/2021 12:00am

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Coronavirus

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Could the Omicron Variant Be Good News?

If it turns out that the difference in the severity with delta is larger than the difference in spread, the omicron variant may prove to be very good news.

Dean Baker / 12/11/2021 12:00am