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As EU member states withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty en masse, developing economies should call for an overhaul of many more investment treaties.

Andrés Arauz and Guillaume Long / May 03, 2023

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Climate Change

Environment

Europe

Globalization and Trade

World

Realismo sobre los tratados de inversión

El TCE impide que los países cumplan con su compromiso de alcanzar las metas del acuerdo climático de París y, en verdad, neutraliza sus planes de gravar los beneficios no previstos de las compañías petroleras.

Andrés Arauz and Guillaume Long / May 03, 2023

Article Artículo

May Day State of the Union(s)

Kelsey Moore / May 01, 2023

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Economic Growth

Inequality

Technology

Google AI Expert Warns of Massive Uptick in Productivity Growth: No Problems with Social Security

Dean Baker / May 01, 2023

Article Artículo

Haiti

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

Exclusive: How Haiti’s Assassination Plot Unraveled, Minute by Minute and Text by Text

The newly obtained WhatsApp chats provide a dramatic narrative of the events that unfolded in the hours and days after the assassination

David Adams and Jake Johnston / May 01, 2023

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CEPR Sanctions Watch April 2023

In this edition of Sanctions Watch, covering April 2023: US Rep. Greg Casar says US asset freeze helped create Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis; amid soaring food prices, the US embargo is blocking agricultural exports to Cuba; the World Bank points to sanctions as the cause of sluggish growth in Iran; nuclear envoys call for greater enforcement of UN resolution barring North Koreans from working overseas; the US suggests a total ban of exports to Russia; doctors in Syria say sanctions hinder a

Michael Galant / April 27, 2023

GDP Byte Artículo

Economic Growth

GDP

United States

Final Demand Remains Strong, but Inventories Drag Down First Quarter GDP Growth

Dean Baker / April 27, 2023

Article Artículo

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Economic Growth

United States

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

While there are serious grounds for concerns about further slowing and a possible recession in the second half of 2023, we should again see solid growth in the first quarter.

Dean Baker / April 26, 2023

Article Artículo

Budget

Budget and National Debt

Health and Social Programs

Healthcare

United States

Medicaid Work Requirements: Fun with Numbers for the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal apparently believes this is a better way to reduce the federal budget deficit than making rich people pay the taxes they owe. That’s fine, but it should not try to hide its priorities from readers.

Dean Baker / April 26, 2023

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Hospice Care

Medicare

Private Equity

Preying on the Dying: Private Equity Gets Rich in Hospice Care

The goal of hospice services is to enable terminally ill patients to remain in their homes and engage in their normal activities to the fullest extent possible

Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt and Emma Curchin / April 25, 2023

Article Artículo

Economic Growth

United States

Workers

David Brooks’ Celebration of American Capitalism

Dean Baker / April 22, 2023

Article Artículo

Haiti

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

Haitian Authorities Quietly Met with Defense Contractor, Former US General

Jake Johnston / April 21, 2023

Article Artículo

China

Globalization and Trade

World

China is Bigger, Get Over It

The issue here is not just a question of bragging rights. China is clearly an international competitor economically, militarily, and diplomatically. Many people want to take a confrontational approach to China, with the idea that we can isolate the country and spend it on the ground militarily, as we arguably did with the Soviet Union.

Dean Baker / April 20, 2023

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The Dismal Economics of SNAP’s Work-Hours Test and Time Limit

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, reduces food insecurity, which in turn improves people’s health and economic well-being.

Tori Coan and Shawn Fremstad / April 18, 2023

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End of COVID-19 Emergency Declarations is Shortsighted and Premature

In January 2023, the Biden administration announced its plans to end two COVID-19-related emergency declarations — a “public health emergency” declaration and a “national emergency” declaration — on May 11, 2023.

Hayley Brown and Tori Coan / April 18, 2023

Article Artículo

Jobs

United States

Workers

Kevin McCarthy Tells Pants on Fire Lie and WaPo Fact Checker Lets Him Off with a Pat on the Wrist

Dean Baker / April 18, 2023

Article Artículo

Inequality

United States

Wall Street

Imagine a World Where CEOs Get Paid $3 Million a Year

Dean Baker / April 17, 2023

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Intellectual Property

United States

Quick Thoughts on AI and Intellectual Property

Dean Baker / April 15, 2023

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For a Democratic Transformation of U.S. Post-Secondary Education

The objective of universal social benefits provided without charge to all comers may be disparaged as radical and impractical, but the idea of the common school — a system of free, non-sectarian education open to all children — goes back to the founding o

Max B. Sawicky / April 13, 2023

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