Publications

Hot Tip for the NYT on Vaccines: There Are These Two Countries Called Russia and China

Intellectual Property

The place where this NYT piece goes seriously off the rails is that it completely ignores the vaccines developed by Russia and China.

Dean Baker / May 15, 2021

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Private Equity

Is a Private Equity Club Deal Coming to a Pension Fund Near You?

Partnerships between private equity firms to buy large enterprises have historically turned out very badly.

Eileen Appelbaum / May 14, 2021

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Food and Housing Hardship Over the COVID-19 Recession

The unequal burden of the recession has been widely reported and the findings in this article demonstrate a need for creating a recovery that is equitable and sustained.

Simran Kalkat and Julie Yixia Cai / May 12, 2021

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Overall CPI Up 0.8 Percent in April Driven by Post-Pandemic Bounce Back

Growth

Inflation

Dean Baker / May 12, 2021

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President Biden Should Reappoint Powell as Fed Chair, Now

Jerome Powell has explicitly said that he wants to have the economy run hot, pushing it as far he can without kicking off inflation.

Dean Baker / May 12, 2021

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PREVIEW: What to Look for in the April Consumer Price Index

Growth

Inflation

Dean Baker / May 10, 2021

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Health and Social Programs

The Fighting Isn’t Over: Review of The Ten Year War, by Jonathan Cohn

I will make a few comments about the book Cohn wrote and then get to some of the things I would have liked to see him discuss more.

Dean Baker / May 10, 2021

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Are Those $300 Weekly Supplements Making It Impossible for Employers to Get Good Help?

In short, it is not plausible that the generosity of unemployment insurance benefits are a major factor affecting employers’ ability to find workers.

Dean Baker / May 10, 2021

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Vaccine Production and Open Source Technology

Intellectual Property

Even where we are now, there is good reason to believe that we can hasten the process of vaccinating the world by freely transferring technology.

Dean Baker / May 08, 2021

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Economy Adds Just 266,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Edges Up to 6.1 Percent

Growth

Jobs

Unemployment due to voluntary quits remains extraordinarily low.

Dean Baker / May 07, 2021

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More Cheap Fun: Job Growth Under Biden and Trump

To repeat my standard disclaimer, I know this sort of comparison is silly, but . . .

Dean Baker / May 07, 2021

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Biden Proposes Progress, Republicans Scream “Socialism”

There was no investment boom when Reagan, Bush II, and Trump cut taxes.

Dean Baker / May 06, 2021

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Biden’s Big Step on TRIPS: Getting the World Vaccinated

Intellectual Property

The goal here should be getting the world vaccinated, not scoring propaganda points. If President Biden approaches the issue that way, hopefully, he can get his counterparts in other major powers to do the same.

Dean Baker / May 06, 2021

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COVID-19 Recession Disproportionately Harmed Working-Class Mothers

Workers

From April to December 2020, 1.45 million fewer working-class mothers were employed compared to the same time period in 2019.

Aiden Lee, Simran Kalkat, Hayley Brown and Sarah Rawlins / May 05, 2021

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Postal Service Reform: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?

The USPS is the premier public enterprise of the United States, and we could do with more of it.

Max B. Sawicky / May 05, 2021

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