Publications

Contrary to What You Read in the Paper, People Are Not Spending Down Their Savings

The reported decline in the saving rate is deceptive. It is more likely that people have made large gains in the stock market and are cashing out some of these gains and paying capital gains taxes on them.

Dean Baker / June 01, 2022

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Jobs

Preview: Lower Unemployment with Moderating Wage Growth

All signs point to another good month of job growth in May; that should push the unemployment rate down to at least 3.5 percent, making it tie for the lowest rate since 1969.

Dean Baker / June 01, 2022

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Environment

Who Cashes in After a California Wildfire?

There is no denying that climate change is going to create more jobs in the disaster-recovery industry. But whether those are jobs with strong worker protections and fair pay depends on government reassessing its role in dealing with this consequence of a

Matt Sedlar / May 31, 2022

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Globalization and Trade

Will US Rate Hikes Harm Developing Countries?

US Foreign Policy

This tightening of policy aims to decelerate inflation, but it carries serious downside risks.

Joe Sammut / May 27, 2022

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Housing

Getting Rents Down, Converting Vacant Office Space to Residential

Remote work is now a fact of life. If the office space is converted to residential space, it will put downward pressure on rents more generally. This is bad news for landlords, but it will mean more money for renters.

Dean Baker / May 27, 2022

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CBO Joins Team Transitory

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) sided clearly with those arguing the case for inflation being temporary.

Dean Baker / May 25, 2022

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Spotlight on Working-Class Asian American and Pacific Islander Women in the Workforce

The pandemic-fueled surge in anti-Asian violence creates a critical moment to rethink issues like occupational segregation and employment discrimination.

Julie Yixia Cai / May 24, 2022

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The Impediment to Productivity Growth: Waste that Makes Some People Rich

Dean Baker / May 24, 2022

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Joe Biden Has Botched the Summit of the Americas

The United States is excluding Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the forthcoming Summit of the Americas. Washington probably wasn’t expecting that much of Latin America, led by Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, would publicly push back in response.

Guillaume Long / May 23, 2022

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Two Quick Notes: Inflation and the Stock Market Plunge

Inflation

Rather than seeing a story of spiraling inflation, actors in financial markets seem to be expecting that the inflation rate will quickly fall back to more moderate levels. That is worth noting.

Dean Baker / May 23, 2022

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Inequality

Financial Struggles of Working-Class Women Reveal Potential for More Robust Family-Friendly Policy Response

Workers

This brief examines three aspects of economic security facing women in recent years: poverty, instability in working hours, and a lack of financial savings, with special attention paid to less-educated women with children.

Julie Yixia Cai and Joe Peck / May 19, 2022

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Globalization and Trade

IMF

Surcharges

World

“Examining the Gendered and Other Impacts of IMF Surcharges” Event Transcript

“Examining the Gendered and Other Impacts of IMF Surcharges” explored the extent to which the IMF's surcharge policy is consistent with its stated commitment to gender equality and a greener, smarter, and fairer COVID-19 recovery.

Michael Galant and Aliza Khan / May 17, 2022

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IMF

Surcharges

World

IMF Projects No Losses if Surcharges Are Removed

Surcharges can be removed safely without threatening the sustainability of the IMF’s finances, while helping reduce debt payments for many developing countries, thereby helping to save and improve the lives of people around the world.

Andrés Arauz and Odd Hanssen / May 16, 2022

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Health and Social Programs

Healthcare

Trends in Real Estate Investment Trust Ownership of US Health Care Properties

Wall Street

Policy makers and health care operators should ensure that the REIT business model is compatible with long-term priorities in health care delivery.

Eileen Appelbaum, Joseph Dov Bruch, Tamar Katz, Tarun Ramesh, Rosemary Batt and Thomas C. Tsai / May 13, 2022

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Inequality

Poverty

A Brief Look at Low-Income Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

CEPR challenges the model minority myth that hides significant numbers within the AAPI population with low incomes that could benefit from government assistance.

Algernon Austin / May 12, 2022

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Globalization and Trade