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GDP Grows 3.3 Percent in Fourth Quarter as Productivity Surge Continues The Commerce Department reported that GDP grew at a 3.3 percent rate in the fourth quarter driven by continued strength in consumption.

Dean Baker / January 26, 2024

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Declining Healthcare Costs: The Good Economic News Keeps Getting Better

Dean Baker / January 26, 2024

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Black Workers

Economic Crisis and Recovery

The Three Labor Market Struggles Facing Black America

Black America suffers from three distinct challenges in the labor market that require differing solutions.

Algernon Austin / January 25, 2024

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NYT Says Rents Have Increased Less Than Wages, so Tenants Are Hurting

Dean Baker / January 25, 2024

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Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

How Did Ecuador Spiral into This Nightmare? It Was the Neoliberal Dismantling of the State

For years, Ecuador was hailed as an "island of peace", even as a security success story. So how did it spiral into chaos so rapidly?

Guillaume Long / January 25, 2024

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Disability

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Unions

Wages

Workers

Record Low Union Membership Shows Need for Ambitious Reform

Despite signs of a labor movement resurgence throughout 2023, union density continued to hover at a historic low.

Hayley Brown / January 23, 2024

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

GDP

Government

United States

PREVIEW: What to Look for In the Fourth Quarter 2023 GDP Report

The economy grew at an extraordinary 4.9 percent annual rate in the third quarter. The growth rate for the fourth quarter is likely to come in around 2.5 percent, putting growth for the year close to 3.0 percent, far above almost anyone’s forecasts.

Dean Baker / January 22, 2024

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CNN Tells Us Young People Can’t Afford Homes, Even Though More Young People Have Homes Now Than When Trump Was in the White House

Dean Baker / January 21, 2024

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CARICOM

Haiti

Kenya

Latin America and the Caribbean

Sanctions

United Nations

US Foreign Policy

Haiti News Round-Up No. 11: Congress Pushes Back on US-Haiti Policy

Several members of the US Congress have warned that “another armed foreign intervention in Haiti will not result in the necessary Haitian-led transition to a democratic government."

Jake Johnston and Chris François / January 18, 2024

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Creating Judicial Chaos: Will the Supreme Court Overturn the Chevron Decision?

Dean Baker / January 17, 2024

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Ecuador

Latin America

Latin America and the Caribbean

Ecuador News Round-Up No. 10: Noboa Declares War

President Noboa has declared Ecuador to be in a state of “internal armed conflict” and ordered the armed forces to “neutralize” organized criminal groups.

Pedro Labayen Herrera / January 16, 2024

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

The “Great” Economy Trump Left Biden

Dean Baker / January 15, 2024

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Why Does the Washington Post Choose to Highlight a Clearly Atypical Person to Tell Us the Economy Has Gotten Worse?

Dean Baker / January 15, 2024

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New York Times Doesn’t Know About Biden’s Income-Driven Student Debt Repayment Plan

Dean Baker / January 13, 2024

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Special Drawing Rights

The IMF Must End Its Hypocrisy on Climate

The IMF must be brought into the twenty-first century if it is to play a constructive role in ending the climate crisis.

Dan Beeton and Omer Javed / January 12, 2024

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Climate Change

Economic Crisis and Recovery

IMF

Inflation

Latin America

Latin America and the Caribbean

Special Drawing Rights

More SDRs for Latin America and the Caribbean: An Effective Tool in an Era of Multiple Crises

This report explains how issuances of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are an effective tool to mitigate the effects of the multiple crises that Latin American and Caribbean countries currently face.

Andrés Arauz and Francisco Amsler / January 11, 2024

Article Artículo

Neo-Liberalism Is Not Dead, It Never Lived

Dean Baker / January 11, 2024

Article Artículo

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Student Loan Debt is Common Across All Race and Gender Groups, Especially for Black Women

Emma Curchin / January 10, 2024

Article Artículo

IMF

Special Drawing Rights

World

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 / January 10, 2024

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