Publications

OMG, a Right-Wing Jerk Can Buy Twitter! Media Concentration Matters

Dean Baker / November 29, 2022

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Haiti

US Foreign Policy

Regional Leaders Raise Doubts Over US-Backed Plan to Send Foreign Military to Haiti

Jake Johnston / November 28, 2022

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Crypto

Global Finance

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Truly Effective Philanthropy: Teaching

We should all recognize that Sam Bankman-Fried is much smarter than the rest of us. After all, outwardly he looks to be one of the biggest frauds of all time. By the age of 30 he amassed a fortune that dwarfs that of your average billionaire. He did it by

Dean Baker / November 25, 2022

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Inflation

On Thanksgiving 2022, Non-Health Consumption is Far Higher Than Before Pandemic

The media’s coverage of the economy in the last year and a half has inflation playing a starring, and almost exclusive, role. Items like the 50-year low in unemployment reached earlier this year have barely been mentioned.

Dean Baker / November 24, 2022

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Escobari and Hoover’s “Difference Estimates” Must Not Be Taken at Face Value

This is the seventh 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 23, 2022

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Escobari and Hoover Are Careless with the Official Data

Escobari and Hoover calculate party vote shares in a nonsensical manner. While this does not have a large effect on their estimates, it often does matter to their discussion of results.

David Rosnick / November 21, 2022

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COVID-19

Crypto

Intellectual Property

Economic Crisis and Recovery

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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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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Financial Transaction Tax

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

Wall Street

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

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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Affordable Care Act

Healthcare

Economic Crisis and Recovery

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 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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