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Jobs

Workers

Preview: What to Look for in July Jobs Report

Dean Baker / August 03, 2021

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COVID-19

Globalization and Trade

IMF

World

Special Drawing Rights Could Help Recover Millions of Export-Related US Jobs, and Create Even More

Reduced demand from developing countries during the pandemic and world recession led to significant American job losses

Kevin Cashman / August 02, 2021

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The Saving Rate is Still High: Evidence on the Post-Pandemic Economy

The fact that we are still seeing a saving rate that is well above the pre-pandemic level goes against the view that people would rush out and spend as soon as they had the opportunity.

Dean Baker / August 01, 2021

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Economic Growth

GDP Rises 6.5 Percent in Second Quarter, Passed Pre-Pandemic Level of Output

The profit share of corporate income rose 1.6 percentage points in the first quarter, countering claims of squeezed employers.

Dean Baker / July 29, 2021

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Economic Growth

PREVIEW: What to Look for in the Second Quarter 2021 GDP Report

We will again see another quarter of extraordinary growth, likely over 7.0 percent.

Dean Baker / July 26, 2021

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Intellectual Property

Technology

Will Dr. Fauci’s “Prototype” Vaccines Be Given to Pfizer and Moderna So that We Can Complain About Technology Creating Inequality?

Ideally it would place patent rights in the public domain, both so that scientists around the world can quickly build on the new innovations produced by this research, and so that any vaccines developed can be sold as cheap generics.

Dean Baker / July 26, 2021

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Is There a Progressive Case Against Quantitative Easing?

Few people who have analyzed the impact of QE following the Great Recession would dispute that it was responsible for several million jobs.

Dean Baker / July 26, 2021

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Do Republicans Distrust the IRS in the Same Way Bank Robbers Distrust the Police?

The piece implies that Republicans in Congress would be happy to go along with increased funding for tax enforcement if it were done by someone other than the IRS. There is absolutely zero reason to believe this is true.

Dean Baker / July 25, 2021

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Inflation as People Experience It and as Economists Measure It

We all know that economic measures cannot fully capture the state of people’s well-being. A big part of that picture is the inadequacy of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living in any real sense.

Dean Baker / July 22, 2021

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Inflation Fears, Economic Policy, and the Future of the United States

Larry Summers and others have been sounding the alarm over inflation. But are fears overblown?

Mark Weisbrot / July 22, 2021

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COVID-19

Health and Social Programs

The Delta Variant is Scary, but it Won’t Sink the Economy

We should be mounting a World-War-II-scale, all-out effort to get the world vaccinated as quickly as possible.

Dean Baker / July 22, 2021

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Poverty

Latin America and the Caribbean

Fail Again, Fail Worse: Fewer Families Received TANF Cash Assistance in 2020 than in 2019

Recently updated data on TANF’s performance during the pandemic recession suggest that TANF is on track to fail worse than during the Great Recession.

Shawn Fremstad / July 21, 2021

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Intellectual Property

Patent Monopolies, Corruption, and the New Alzheimer’s Drug

It would be nice if we could one day have a serious discussion of alternative mechanisms for financing research instead of acting as though the patent system came down to us from god.

Dean Baker / July 20, 2021

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Bolivia

Government

The OAS’s Favorite Electoral Authority in Bolivia Just Slammed the OAS for Causing “Havoc” after the 2019 Elections

New statements about Bolivia’s 2019 elections from an electoral authority that was widely cited by proponents of the electoral fraud narrative are reigniting calls for an investigation into the role of the OAS.

Guillaume Long and Alexander Main / July 20, 2021

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Colombia

Haiti

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

Haitians Don’t Need Another President Chosen Behind Closed Doors

Beyond the crisis of the president’s assassination, there’s the crisis of no democratic legitimacy. Here’s how to remedy that.

Jake Johnston / July 19, 2021

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COVID-19

Intellectual Property

The Drug Companies Are Killing People

They are using their government-granted patent monopolies, and their control over technical information about the production of vaccines, to limit the supply of vaccines available to the world.

Dean Baker / July 18, 2021

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Can We Cut the Crap on “Unconstrained Globalized Capitalism”?

I get why the right likes to make it seem that the huge upward redistribution of the last four decades was just the result of the market working its magic, but why do so many liberals feel the need to play along?

Dean Baker / July 18, 2021

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Government