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Government

United States

The Rise in Material Hardship Among Working-Class Whites and How It Could Impact the 2020 Election

The rise in material hardship among lower-income whites without college degrees will likely make it harder for Trump to hold on to these important swing voters in the election.

Mariko Lewis, Julie Yixia Cai and Shawn Fremstad / October 27, 2020

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Washington Post Reports on How Top Execs at Bankrupt Companies Get Large Bonuses

Bloated CEO pay is simply corruption that generates inequality, and shareholders should be allies in stopping it.

Dean Baker / October 27, 2020

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Red State Governors Still Flunk Coronavirus Testing

I argued that positive test rates are a good measure of how serious the governors are in trying to bring the pandemic under control.

Dean Baker / October 26, 2020

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Intellectual Property

Yet Another Diatribe on Patent Monopolies and How They Are Not Talked About in Polite Company

I don’t know why reporters, economists, and other policy types don’t talk about the abuses and waste created by patent and copyright monopolies. I just know that they don’t.

Dean Baker / October 26, 2020

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Democracy

Mexico

Mexico at the OAS General Assembly: Almagro Undermined the OAS Charter and Damaged Bolivia’s Democracy

The most scathing public indictment of Almagro’s actions has come from Mexico, whose Subsecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean delivered a scathing indictment of the current General Secretary for his unilateral decision-making, support for harmful

Cavan Kharrazian / October 23, 2020

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Affordable Care Act

The Impact of the Pandemic on Superstar Cities

It is still too early to make any definitive judgements, but as remote work becomes more accepted, it is hard to believe that many people will not take the opportunity to move to lower cost parts of the country.

Dean Baker / October 23, 2020

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Datos de las Elecciones Bolivianas Añaden Más Pruebas de que la OEA Fabricó Las Denuncias de Fraude del Año Pasado

Esas 226 actas nunca mostraron un fraude, como afirmó la OEA. Sin embargo, sí revelan cómo la OEA privó de sus derechos a decenas de miles de indígenas bolivianos en sus descarados intentos por justificar la destitución antidemocrática de un líder electo.

Jake Johnston / October 22, 2020

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US Foreign Policy

Data from Bolivia’s Election Add More Evidence That OAS Fabricated Last Year’s Fraud Claims

Jake Johnston / October 21, 2020

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Democracy

Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy

The overwhelming MAS election victory is a repudiation of the racist coup regime as well as the Trump administration and the OAS, which helped install it.

Mark Weisbrot / October 21, 2020

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Intellectual Property

Government-Granted Patent Monopolies Gave Purdue Pharma Incentives to Push Opioids

Maybe this is too obvious a point, but I don't see it mentioned in news coverage of the company's settlement.

Dean Baker / October 21, 2020

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Two Interviews on the Bolivian Coup and Its Aftermath

Two new interviews recorded for a new podcast, “While We were Sleeping,” offer useful context for the October 18 general elections just carried out in Bolivia.

CEPR and Francesca Emanuele / October 20, 2020

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Bolivian Elections Live Blog

Bolivians go to the polls October 18 in the first general elections since democratically elected president Evo Morales was forced out in a military coup.

October 18, 2020

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The OAS Helped Facilitate Last Year’s Coup Against Evo Morales. Now It’s Observing Today’s Bolivian Elections

The Organization of American States, a supposedly neutral election observer, helped legitimate last year’s coup in Bolivia by falsely claiming Evo Morales had committed election fraud. And now it’s observing today’s elections

Kevin Cashman / October 18, 2020

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Washington Post Suffers from Which Way Is Up Problem: Repealing Section 230 is DEREGULATING Facebook

The threat to remove Section 230 protections from FCC chair Ajit Pai is obviously an act of political intimidation directed at Facebook and Twitter.

Dean Baker / October 17, 2020

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Intellectual Property

Waiting for a Vaccine and the Collaborative Research Alternative

If the United States had pursued a route of open collaborative research, we would now be in a position to start mass producing China's leading vaccines and distributing them as soon as evidence of their effectiveness was sufficiently established.

Dean Baker / October 16, 2020

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Ecuador

IMF

World Bank

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

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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Ecuador

IMF