Publications

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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Economic Crisis and Recovery

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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Morales’s First-Round Victory Was Predictable — Not “Inexplicable”

If they find that the late-reporting polling stations showed elevated support for Morales, they are hard-pressed to say that the late reporting caused the elevated support as opposed to any other cause or causes for delay — benign or malicious — inducing

David Rosnick / November 17, 2022

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Some Observers — Including the OAS — Ignored Critical Biases in Bolivia’s Preliminary Count

The “shutdown” does not offer a true opportunity for a natural experiment because the “treatment” group is neither plausibly similar to the “control” nor known to be treated in any ordinary sense.

David Rosnick / November 16, 2022

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The Preliminary Count in Bolivia’s 2019 Election Contained Clear Biases

Votes were not counted at random and that the problem of counting nickels before dimes is real and must be accounted for when the count is incomplete

David Rosnick / November 15, 2022

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Crypto

Financial Transaction Tax

Crypto Meltdown is a Great Time to Eliminate Waste in Bloated Financial Sector

Wall Street

If our politicians actually had any interest in economic efficiency, they would be engaged in an all out push to downsize the financial industry and free up hundreds of billions of dollars for productive uses.

Dean Baker / November 14, 2022

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Who to Believe? NYT Says Young People Can’t Buy Homes, BLS Says Ownership Rate Is Way Up

November 12, 2022

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Affordable Care Act

Healthcare

The Crushing Health Care Cost Burden that Never Came (Corrected)

We have dodged the health care horror story that was projected in the 1990s by the Peter Peterson gang and more recently by CBO. And, that is very good news.

Dean Baker / November 11, 2022

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Economic Policy

Inflation

Lower than Expected Consumer Price Index Bolsters the Case for Fed Pause

Not only did the Consumer Price Index (CPI) come in slightly lower than expected, we are seeing no evidence that inflation is becoming embedded in services, as many had predicted.

Dean Baker / November 10, 2022

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Nickels Before Dimes: Misleading Design in Escobari and Hoover’s “Natural Experiment”

Escobari and Hoover's approaches to fraud detection are faulty and their claims to have measured fraud in the 2019 Bolivian elections are not supported.

David Rosnick / November 10, 2022

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Nickels Before Dimes: The Blog Posts

This is the first 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 10, 2022

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The Parable of Nickels Before Dimes: A Tale of Two Roommates

When counting votes in an election, the only thing that matters is the final count. So long as we count all the votes, the order in which we count is unimportant.

David Rosnick / November 10, 2022

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Brazil

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

US Foreign Policy

Desta vez, vamos garantir que os EUA respeitem a democracia no Brasil

Aqueles que prezam a democracia no Brasil precisam ficar atentos para o que o governo dos Estados Unidos fará nos próximos meses e anos.

Mark Weisbrot / November 09, 2022

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Brazil

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

US Foreign Policy

Asegurémonos de que, esta vez, el gobierno de EE.UU. respete la democracia en Brasil

Quienes consideran importante la democracia en Brasil tendrán que estar atentos a lo que haga el gobierno de Estados Unidos en los meses y años venideros.

Mark Weisbrot / November 09, 2022

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Brazil

Democracy

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

US Foreign Policy

Let’s Make Sure that the US Government Respects Democracy In Brazil This Time

Those who care about democracy in Brazil will have to keep a watchful eye on what the United States government is doing in the months and years ahead.

Mark Weisbrot / November 09, 2022

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Economic Policy

Globalization and Trade

The Case for the Trumpers’ Anger

Imagine the lowest paid workers, the people cleaning toilets in office buildings or bussing dishes in restaurants, earned $52,000 a year if they worked a full-time job for the whole year. … That’s a very different world than the one we have.

Dean Baker / November 08, 2022

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