Publications

Wall Street

Tax Stock Returns: If Biden Really Wants to Close Corporate Income Tax Loopholes

Taxing stock returns is better than taxing corporate profits for the simple reason that it is completely transparent.

Dean Baker / April 18, 2021

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Environment

Paying by the Mile and Ending the Gas Tax

If we continue to allow gas taxes to fund road repairs and improvements, we will see large shortfalls in revenue as people shift to electric cars.

Dean Baker / April 15, 2021

Article Artículo

Globalization and Trade

A Two-Year Shortage of Semi-Conductors Is Not a Supply Chain Problem

Those interested in preventing this sort of problem should be asking why highly paid executives at major semi-conductor manufacturers don’t seem to know their industry.

Dean Baker / April 14, 2021

Article Artículo

Inflation

Big Jump In Energy Prices Pushes Overall CPI Up 0.6 Percent in March as Depressed Prices Bounce Back

Nothing in this report should raise fears of inflation problems. We see some bounce back in prices depressed by pandemic, nothing more.

Dean Baker / April 13, 2021

Article Artículo

Inequality

Intellectual Property

Patents and the Pandemic: Can We Learn Anything?

To my view, there is no economic policy that is worse in its outcomes than our system of patent monopoly financing for prescription drugs.

Dean Baker / April 12, 2021

Article Artículo

Inflation

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

In March, we should be seeing more of the bounce back in prices that fell sharply during the pandemic.

Dean Baker / April 12, 2021

Article Artículo

Intellectual Property

A Vaccine Summit: Taking the Pandemic Seriously

We need the cooperation of the whole world and the elimination of all the barriers to the production and distribution of vaccines.

Dean Baker / April 09, 2021

Article Artículo

Washington Post Reports that Biden is Spending 0.001 Percent of the Budget Each Week Caring for Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum

It might have been useful if the paper put the number in some context that would make its meaning clearer. But, it didn't.

Dean Baker / April 08, 2021

Article Artículo

Margaret Sullivan Gets it Wrong, Libel Law Is a Good Thing

The threat of defamation suits is also very helpful in preventing lies from being pushed in the first place.

Dean Baker / April 08, 2021

report informe

Health and Social Programs

Inequality

Housing Insecurity by Race and Place During the Pandemic

In this report, we update our analysis with data through December 2020, and provide detail on both housing and food insecurity at the state and metropolitan level.

Julie Yixia Cai, Shawn Fremstad and Simran Kalkat / April 05, 2021

Article Artículo

The March Jobs Report and the State of the Recovery

The March jobs report gives us good news on the other key factor in the inflation story: productivity growth.

Dean Baker / April 04, 2021

Article Artículo

Jobs

Latin America and the Caribbean

Workers

Economy Adds 916,000 Jobs in March; Unemployment Falls to 6.0 Percent

Dean Baker / April 02, 2021

Article Artículo

Ecuador

Decenas de Millones en Propiedades en la Florida, EE.UU. vinculadas al Candidato Presidencial Guillermo Lasso

Una revisión de los registros corporativos e inmobiliarios en Florida muestra que las participaciones de las empresas fantasma vinculadas a Lasso han aumentado desde 2017, lo que plantea dudas sobre la legalidad de la candidatura de Lasso.

Jake Johnston / April 02, 2021

Article Artículo

Colombia

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

Biden and Latin America

Donald Trump is no longer president, but that does not mean that the behavior of the United States toward its southern neighbors will change radically.

Alexander Main / April 02, 2021

Article Artículo

More Cheap Fun: Comparing Job Growth Under Trump and Biden After Two Months

As we can see, after two months, Biden has created 1,384,000 jobs. In four years, Trump lost 2,876,000 jobs.

Dean Baker / April 02, 2021

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Jobs

Workers

PREVIEW: What to Look for in the March Jobs Report

We should be seeing strong job gains in March and possibly some drop in the unemployment rate.

Dean Baker / March 31, 2021

Article Artículo