Publications

How Many Lives Would Have Been Saved if We Had Collaborated on Vaccines With China?

It makes sense to cooperate in areas of mutual benefit. Developing vaccines and treatments against the pandemic would have been an obvious example.

Dean Baker / November 21, 2020

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Passivity is a Bad Political Strategy

If the Democrats continue to govern from a defensive crouch, it risks failing not only the American people, but democracy itself.

CEPR and Kathleen Geier / November 21, 2020

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Joe Biden Must Not Look for Unity in Mitch McConnell’s Obstruction

A case study of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which has had no members on it for years, shows McConnell’s commitment to breaking government. Biden has options to counteract that.

Mariama Sojourner Eversley and Eleanor Eagan / November 20, 2020

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Universal Lessons from Illinois’s Fair Tax Failure: How a Rich Minority Wins the Majority Vote

On All Fronts at Once

To succeed, the Biden Administration must embrace creative, sometimes unusual strategies, push many initiatives simultaneously, and rely heavily on the talents of the figures it has appointed

Eleanor Eagan and Jeff Hauser / November 20, 2020

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Inequality

By looking at what happened in Illinois, we can distill broader political factors that are applicable across the country.

Sepideh Jessica Vasseghi / November 19, 2020

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Moderna Vaccine Follows Pfizer with Very Strong Results on Effectiveness: What This Means

Moderna’s success also demonstrates an important economic point: Having the government pay a company to develop a vaccine is not the same thing as throwing money in the toilet.

Dean Baker / November 19, 2020

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

The Krugman Boom: Don’t Bank on It

While I have not been one of the doomsayers predicting economic collapse, I can’t be as optimistic as Paul on this one.

Dean Baker / November 19, 2020

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Biden’s Cabinet Could Do A Lot – If He Resists the Urge to Fill it With ‘Consensus’ Picks

Wall Street is delighted at the prospect of a divided government, because it’s an excuse for Democrats to avoid seeking real change

Max Moran and Miranda Litwak / November 18, 2020

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GSA Head’s Transition Refusal a Predictable Consequence of Too Many Political Appointees

Cutting off this destructive cycle will stabilize the civil service and make government work better in the long run.

CEPR and Yevgeny Shrago / November 17, 2020

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Globalization and Trade

“Protecting Intellectual Property” Against China Means Redistributing Income Upward

Stronger and longer patent and copyright protections have redistributed enormous amounts of income upward over the past four decades.

Dean Baker / November 16, 2020

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Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

At Odds with Presidency, a Government Watchdog is Weakened by Executive Decree

Jake Johnston and Kira Paulemon / November 12, 2020

Prices Byte Artículo

Consumer Price Index: “There is Zero Basis for any Concerns About Inflation”

Growth

This is a compilation of Dean Baker’s quick-take analysis over Twitter. Follow @DeanBaker13 on Twitter to get his quick-take analysis of government data immediately upon release.

Dean Baker / November 12, 2020

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Lowering the Bar on Success: Megan McArdle on Drug Development

We want to know if the way we finance drug research is the best way, not just that it can lead to successful drugs and vaccines.

Dean Baker / November 12, 2020

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Donna Shalala Encapsulated Pelosi’s Embrace of Passivity as a Strategy

The Florida congresswoman who lost her re-election battle did nothing to oversee or challenge the Trump administration.

Eleanor Eagan / November 09, 2020

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2020 Election

The Biden 8.1 Million Vote Landslide! (corrected post)

Some folks are seeing this election as a squeaker for Biden since we saw close races in key states. This has concealed the fact that Biden actually is winning the popular vote by a large margin.

Dean Baker / November 07, 2020

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Jobs

Economy Adds 638,000 Jobs in October, Unemployment Falls to 6.9 Percent

The unemployment rate fell another percentage point to 6.9 percent. This still leaves the number of jobs 6.6 percent below the February level.

Dean Baker / November 06, 2020

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We Don’t Have to Live in Mitch McConnell’s World

Biden has to actively assert his power as chief executive, in this case over Cabinet appointments.

Max Moran / November 06, 2020

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Globalization and Trade

Inequality

Donald Trump and Being Deplorable

Telling the victims of a four-decade-long policy of upward redistribution that it is their fault, is a lie of Trumpian proportions.

Dean Baker / November 05, 2020

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