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Latin America and the Caribbean

A Warm Washington Welcome for Colombia’s Controversial Ex-President

Iván Duque may still have a bright future in Washington, DC.

Alexander Main / August 24, 2022

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Colombia

US Foreign Policy

Washington le da una cálida bienvenida a controvertido expresidente colombiano

Queda por verse si la administración estadounidense realmente aceptará la nueva realidad política en Colombia o si intentará socavar, o incluso derrocar, a su gobierno, como lo ha hecho tantas veces antes en América Latina.

Alexander Main / August 24, 2022

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IMF

Special Drawing Rights

Special Drawing Rights One Year Later, By the Numbers

This work updates an April 2022 report and tracks how countries made use of these SDRs from August 23, 2021 to July 31, 2022.

Andrés Arauz and Kevin Cashman / August 24, 2022

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Intellectual Property

Bernie Sanders Makes the Washington Post Oped Page: We Don’t Need Government-Granted Patent Monopolies to Finance Drug Research

Moving away from … government-granted patent monopolies to a system of direct public funding will be a long process. But we have to get the debate started.

Dean Baker / August 22, 2022

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Wall Street

How to Decimate the Corporate Tax-Avoidance Industry

Insofar as companies spend large amounts of money trying to avoid paying taxes, the goal of the corporate income tax is undermined.

Dean Baker / August 22, 2022

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Productivity Growth: What Happened to the Upturn?

There are reasons for some hope that we are on a faster productivity path than we were before the pandemic. However, we will need to see more evidence to believe this is actually the case.

Dean Baker / August 22, 2022

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Inflation: Where are We Now?

The recent government data on inflation, along with a wide variety of private measures, give us good reason to believe that we are seeing at least a temporary pause where the monthly inflation data will be moderate.

Dean Baker / August 19, 2022

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Bolivia

Organization of American States

Health and Social Programs

OAS Continues to Dodge Accountability for Actions in the 2019 Bolivian Election

The failure of the OAS to explain false claims of fraud it made during the Bolivian elections in 2019 continues to fuel doubts about its ability to monitor elections fairly and objectively.

Francisco R. Rodríguez and Jake Johnston / August 18, 2022

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Poverty

Health and Social Programs

What Do Fertility and Football Have to Do with Clinton-Gingrich Welfare Reform? Read This to Find Out

TANF is a poorly designed, failed program with misguided purposes, including the sexual regulation of working-class people, and it needs to be repealed and replaced.

Shawn Fremstad / August 18, 2022

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AAPI

Abortion

Disability

Inequality

How Restricting Reproductive Rights Hurts People with Disabilities: A Review of Research Findings

This article documents the prevalence of disability among women of reproductive age by state, disability status, type of disability, and income.

Annabel Utz / August 17, 2022

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Affordable Care Act

Health and Social Programs

Environment

Government

CEPR Statement: Inflation Reduction Act is Historic Progress

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will be signed today by President Biden. The act will reduce the costs of health care, prescription drugs, and home energy bills while making real progress on climate change, creating millions of good jobs

Mark Weisbrot, Eileen Appelbaum, Dean Baker, Algernon Austin, Shawn Fremstad, Julie Yixia Cai and Hayley Brown / August 16, 2022

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Economic Policy

Inequality

Thomas Edsall Can’t Even Consider That the Way We Structure Markets Creates Inequality

The framing that we somehow need government intervention to give people a shot makes it hugely more difficult to address the problems of inequality.

Dean Baker / August 10, 2022

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The Media Love The Terrible Economy Story: Marketplace Radio Edition

Both the Washington Post and Marketplace radio have effectively turned reality on its head to tell their terrible economy story about a statistic that actually suggests a good economy.

Dean Baker / August 10, 2022

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Inflation: A Formula for Disaster

With your support, CEPR can keep doing this important research to educate policymakers and the press.

Dawn Niederhauser / August 10, 2022

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Economic Growth

Plunging Gas Prices Lead to Flat CPI, Big Jump in July Real Wages

The July Consumer Price Index data are a mixed picture. The plunge in gas prices means money in people's pockets, but food prices are still rising rapidly.

Dean Baker / August 10, 2022

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Inequality

Wall Street

If We Tax Share Buybacks, Can We Also Tax Stock Returns?

The taxation of share buybacks in the Inflation Reduction Act shows that we do not have to make profit the basis for the corporate income tax.

Dean Baker / August 09, 2022

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Preview: What to Look for in the July Consumer Price Index

Inflation in rental components increased rapidly in recent months. The Fed’s interest rate hikes had a direct impact on house sale prices, but it is unclear how or when it will impact rents.

Dean Baker / August 08, 2022

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