Publications

When Trump Proposes Giving More Money to the Rich, NYT Mind Readers Know That He’s Doing it to Increase Growth

Fortunately, the NYT has a staff of mind readers who can keep us better informed.

Dean Baker / August 12, 2020

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Financing Drug Development: What the Pandemic Has Taught Us

The issue here is how much the government would have to spend on advanced funding to get the same results as we see with patent monopoly financed research.

Dean Baker / August 11, 2020

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The Same Racist Rhetoric Used To Oppose D.C. Statehood Keeps The Federal Government Dysfunctional

Workers

Conservatives like Cotton have long villainized African-American pathways to the middle class that include government employment.

August 10, 2020

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Economic Growth

Economy Creates 1.8 Million Jobs in July, Production Workers’ Wages Fall

Workers

The July employment report showed the economy adding another 1,761,000 jobs in July.

Dean Baker / August 07, 2020

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Private Equity

A Day One Agenda for Private Equity

Over the past decade, private equity has crept and crawled into all corners of our lives. Everywhere you look across our ruinous, virus-riddled landscape, private equity is there.

Eileen Appelbaum / August 07, 2020

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Ecuador

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

World

The Political Exile of Ecuador’s Rafael Correa

CEPR senior policy analyst and Ecuador's former foreign minister Guillaume Long talked to This Is Hell about lawfare, the barring of former president Rafael Correa's party from the ballot, and Ecuador's turn toward austerity and the IMF under Moreno.

Dan Beeton / August 07, 2020

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Private Equity

NYT Does a Little Editorializing for Private Equity Company

Dean Baker / August 05, 2020

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Note on Non-Responses to E-Mail

Dean Baker / August 04, 2020

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The Trump Record on Unemployment

Dean Baker / August 03, 2020

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An Economic Survival Package, Not a Stimulus Package

The centerpiece of a keeping people whole strategy should be the continuation of the $600 weekly supplements to unemployment checks.

Dean Baker / August 02, 2020

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Economic Growth

Plunge in Consumption of Services Leads to Record 32.9 Percent Drop in GDP

The saving rate hit a record 25.7 percent level in the first quarter, indicating that few of the pandemic checks were spent.

Dean Baker / July 30, 2020

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Health and Social Programs

Stimulus Checks in Next Coronavirus Package Shouldn’t Penalize One-Parent Households

Both the HEROES Act passed by the House in May and Senate Republicans’ HEALS Act announced this week would provide a new round of stimulus in the form of one-time cash payments to most Americans, but with some major differences.

Shawn Fremstad and Nicole Rodgers / July 30, 2020

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More Thoughts on the Post-Pandemic Economy

It is often said that GDP is not a good measure of well-being, we see this in a very big way in the post-pandemic period. It is likely that many of the changes in behavior forced by the pandemic, first and foremost telecommuting, will be enduring.

Dean Baker / July 29, 2020

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Comparative Carnage: Homicides and the Pandemic

Dean Baker / July 29, 2020

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Moderna Shows All Those Lazy Unemployed Workers How to Really Rip Off the Government

If its vaccine turns out to be ineffective or have harmful side effects, the company has already been paid for its work.

Dean Baker / July 28, 2020

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Taxpayer-Funded Drug Research Should Require Open-Source Sharing by Big Pharma

It is tragic, if not surprising, that Donald Trump would not take advantage of an unprecedented opportunity for international cooperation to test an ambitious alternative mechanism for financing pharmaceutical research.

Dean Baker / July 27, 2020

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Quick Reminder: Insider Trading Does not Maximize Shareholder Value

Dean Baker / July 25, 2020

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Thoughts on Zachary Carter’s The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Dean Baker / July 25, 2020

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Affordable Care Act

Health and Social Programs

Disability

Disability and Employment in the Time of Coronavirus: The 30th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act

Workers

The ADA’s 30th anniversary is set to take place during a period of crisis in the US. The coronavirus pandemic has decimated employment, with the employment-to-population ratio falling by 8.7 percentage points and the unemployment rate skyrocketing.

Hayley Brown / July 24, 2020

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