Publications

Article Artículo

Labor Day under Coronavirus and Depression: What is Our Government Doing to Labor?

Who would want to be forcing layoffs—potentially totaling millions at the state and local level—during a depression and pandemic?

Mark Weisbrot / September 04, 2020

Article Artículo

COVID-19

Government

Intellectual Property

United States

Trump’s ‘America First’ Vaccine Agenda May Leave Us Last

By using the usual patent monopoly framework rather than international open-source collaboration, the coronavirus vaccine may prove both elusive and more costly for Americans.

Dean Baker / September 04, 2020

Article Artículo

Budget

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Health and Social Programs

Post Fact-Checker Buys Trump’s “Just Joking” Defense on Eliminating Social Security

The Washington Post's fact-checker gave the Biden campaign four Pinocchios, saying that Trump has always promised to protect Social Security.

Dean Baker / September 04, 2020

Article Artículo

Globalization and Trade

Inequality

Intellectual Property

Seeing the Last Acceptable Prejudice Clearly: The More Educated Screwed the Less-Educated

It was not the natural forces of globalization and technology that made the less-educated big losers, it was how we structured these forces.

Dean Baker / September 02, 2020

Article Artículo

Economic Crisis and Recovery

The Old Japan’s Debt Burden is Reaching Its Limits Story

Japan is a huge embarrassment for the deficit hawks.

Dean Baker / August 31, 2020

Article Artículo

Haiti

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

State Department Awarded Contract to Politically Connected Security Firm

Jake Johnston / August 31, 2020

Article Artículo

Affordable Care Act

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Inequality

Are Corporate CEOs Worth $20 Million?

This simple and important question does not get anywhere near the attention it deserves.

Dean Baker / August 31, 2020

Article Artículo

Economic Crisis and Recovery

New York Times Reports that 0.01 Percent of the Paycheck Protection Program was Fraudulently Spent

Yep, that's its big story for the day, although people probably saw the number $62 million in the headline.

Dean Baker / August 29, 2020

Article Artículo

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Intellectual Property

Spending on Prescription Drugs: Lies My President Told Me #3,475,652

Dean Baker / August 29, 2020

Article Artículo

Government

Inequality

United States

Brief Interview with Mark Weisbrot on the US Election, the Trump Presidency, and the Impact of Protests

The Instituto para Reforma das Relações entre Estado e Empresa (IREE), based in Brazil, interviewed CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot about the upcoming US elections.

Mark Weisbrot / August 28, 2020