Publications

States With More Insured Residents Have Higher COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

Is state variation in COVID vaccination rates due in part to state-level differences in the percentage of residents with health insurance and state policy decisions that influence the availability and quality of health insurance?

Shawn Fremstad / June 08, 2021

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WaPo’s New Terminology to Appease the Trumpers: Are Drunk Driving Laws Government “Preferences?”

The vaccine requirement is a safety regulation, designed to protect crew and other passengers from the risk of catching the Covid.

Dean Baker / June 08, 2021

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Inflation

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

The big uncertainty in the May report will be the index for used cars.

Dean Baker / June 07, 2021

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Globalization and Trade

Inequality

Can We Bemoan Inequality as We Push Policies to Increase It?

Instead of US companies like GE and Walmart benefiting from cheap Chinese labor, our leading tech companies are worried about going head-to-head with more efficient Chinese competitors.

Dean Baker / June 07, 2021

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Intellectual Property

Patents Are a Bad Way to Fund the Development of Drugs #46,541

June 07, 2021

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Patent Monopolies and Inequality: When We Give Rich People Money, Why Does Inequality Surprise Us?

Inequality

Intellectual Property

The great fortunes created by patent and copyright monopolies go well beyond the current crop of Covid vaccine billionaires.

Dean Baker / June 06, 2021

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Does the New York Times Prohibit Its Reporters from Mentioning China’s Vaccines?

Intellectual Property

Ignoring China's vaccines in the context of vaccinating the world is truly bizarre.

Dean Baker / June 06, 2021

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It’s Cheap Fun Saturday: Job Growth Under Biden and Trump

I know this sort of comparison is silly, but . . .

Dean Baker / June 05, 2021

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Jobs

Economy Adds 559,000 Jobs in May; Unemployment Drops to 5.8 Percent

Workers

Black teen unemployment hit a record low of 12.1 percent in May.

Dean Baker / June 04, 2021

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Budget

Government

The CEPR “It’s the Budget, Stupid” Budget Calculator — Because Size Matters

Almost no one has any sense of what’s big and what’s small in the budget because the numbers are standardly reported as millions, billions, or trillions, with no context whatsoever.

Dean Baker / June 03, 2021

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Here’s How to Understand the Next Jobs Report

We will see some jumps in inflation, partly the result of rebounds from price declines in the pandemic and partly the result of temporary shortages as businesses get back up to speed.

Dean Baker / June 03, 2021

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Jobs

PREVIEW: What to Look for in the May Jobs Report

Workers

In May, we should see the sort of strong job gains that many of us had expected in April.

Dean Baker / June 02, 2021

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Bolivia

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

World

Bolivia After the 2019 Coup: Economic Policy

This paper looks at the economy of Bolivia during the de facto government that took power following a military coup in November of 2019 and that ruled for one year.

Jake Johnston, Joe Sammut, Mark Weisbrot and Miguel Carvalho / June 01, 2021

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Haiti

Organization of American States

US Foreign Policy

Constitutional Referendum: How the International Community is Supporting an Illegal Power Grab in Haiti

Jake Johnston / June 01, 2021

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Inequality

Profit Share of Corporate Income Falls In Pandemic

In spite of the high unemployment in 2020, the wage share actually rose slightly.

Dean Baker / June 01, 2021

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China’s Demographic Crisis

Even modest rates of productivity growth will easily offset the impact of a declining ratio of workers to retirees that China is expecting over the next quarter century.

Dean Baker / May 31, 2021

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The Booming Economy and Debt and Deficit Fears

It turns out that we didn’t have as much to fear from higher interest rates as advertised.

Dean Baker / May 30, 2021

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