Publications

Ecuador’s New Loan Program: A Tale of Two IMFs

World Bank

The IMF should be focused assisting governments with the expansion of progressive and corporate taxation and helping all countries coordinate stimulus measures for jobs and sustainable development, not continuing to push harmful austerity.

Lara Merling / October 15, 2020

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Biden’s Treasury Could Fight Climate Change, But Would Lael Brainard’s?

Revolving Door Project

Biden’s choice for Treasury Secretary is arguably among his most important climate policy decisions.

Joshua Timi Iwayemi, Miranda Litwak and Jeff Hauser / October 15, 2020

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Ecuador

International Monetary Fund

Latin America and the Caribbean

El FMI impone más recortes para Ecuador, aunque predica lo contrario

El FMI que se presenta en las reuniones anuales no es el mismo FMI que el que organiza los programas de préstamos, como se demuestra en el caso de Ecuador.

Lara Merling / October 15, 2020

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Prop 22 Is a Dress Rehearsal for This Biden Cabinet Hopeful’s Confirmation Battle

Revolving Door Project

Uber, DoorDash, and Lyft want to neutralize workers’ rights for gig economy workers. They got the idea from Obama’s former acting secretary of labor, Seth Harris.

Max Moran / October 14, 2020

Prices Byte Artículo

Growth

Overall and Core CPI Rise 0.2 Percent in September, as Pandemic Price Patterns Reappear

Dean Baker / October 13, 2020

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Educating the Washington Post on Section 230

Section 230 effectively allows Facebook to profit from being a conduit of libelous material.

Dean Baker / October 13, 2020

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International Monetary Fund

Intellectual Property

The Washington Post Has Never Heard of the International Monetary Fund

The editorial never once mentions the proposal before the International Monetary Fund to substantially increase the special drawing rights available to developing countries.

Dean Baker / October 12, 2020

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Trump’s Triple Failure: Virus Control, Stimulus, and the Trade Deficit

Globalization and Trade

Workers

Unless policymakers act quickly, there will be no countervailing sources of demand to reverse the impact of Trump’s historically large trade imbalances.

Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein / October 12, 2020

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Waiting for a Vaccine: Killing for Inequality

Intellectual Property

It is hard to understand how, not just mainstream Democrats, but even progressive leaders ... were not pushing for an open research response to the pandemic. This almost certainly would have given us a vaccine more quickly.

Dean Baker / October 11, 2020

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Auto Suppliers Complain that They Can’t Get Good Help

Auto suppliers are not raising wages especially rapidly, which is likely the reason they are having trouble getting workers.

Dean Baker / October 08, 2020

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Health and Social Programs

Outdated Assumptions Mask True Poverty Rate

Shawn Fremstad / October 07, 2020

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The Biden Transition’s Ethics Pledge Is a Paper Tiger

Revolving Door Project

Far from keeping lobbyists out of a Biden executive branch, the transition’s rules offer plenty of openings for the Washington influence industry.

Eleanor Eagan and Max Moran / October 07, 2020

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Jump in Wage Growth Shows Disparate Impact of Layoffs

We are not only seeing the lower paid workers in each sector losing their jobs, but we are also seeing large-scale layoffs in the lowest paid sectors.

Dean Baker / October 07, 2020

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Bolivia

Latin America and the Caribbean

Why a DC Public Relations Firm Pretended to Be Bolivian on Facebook

New details about the recent Latin American operations of a US public relations firm called CLS Strategies illustrate that Americans are not just on the receiving end of manipulative social media campaigns, but are participants in them as well.

Brett Heinz / October 05, 2020

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Congress

Republican Attempts to Suppress the Vote Must be Stopped

Between now and the election, Trump and his party must be held accountable for what they have already done, and the mass death and suffering that their decisions have caused.

Mark Weisbrot / October 05, 2020

Jobs Byte Artículo

Workers

Economy Adds 661,000 Jobs in September, Unemployment Falls to 7.9 Percent

The large jump in long-term unemployment and people leaving the labor force are ominous signs for the future.

Dean Baker / October 02, 2020

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Health and Social Programs

If You Could Save a Million Lives, Would You Do It?

That is what members of Congress should be asking themselves before they leave for recess in October.

Mark Weisbrot / October 02, 2020

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