October 29, 2022

29 07:06:00 Octubre 2022

Ryan was a lightweight who did not want his proposals to be taken seriously, and thankfully, most people other than centrist pundits did not.

• GovernmentEl GobiernoUnited StatesEE. UU.

Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter, Can We Stop Wasting Time on Campaign Finance Reform?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 28, 2022

28 Octubre 2022

Do we have a plan to keep a right-wing jerk like Musk from taking over a major social media platform?

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónInflationUnited StatesEE. UU.

NPR Tells Listeners Not to Give Biden Credit for Falling Gas Prices, Even When its Story Effectively Does

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 27, 2022

27 04:49:00 Octubre 2022

The gist of this brief exchange is that Biden’s latest announcement that he was releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves was not lowering prices because he had earlier committed himself to this release.

• Economic GrowthEl DesarolloUnited StatesEE. UU.

NYT Calls the Obama Stimulus, Which Most Economists Think Was Too Small, “Huge”

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 25, 2022

25 05:39:00 Octubre 2022

The NYT doesn’t like the Democrats’ economic policies. They make this very clear in their news section.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Washington Post Preemptively Trashes Third Quarter GDP Numbers

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 23, 2022

23 19:34:00 Octubre 2022

We should never make too much of one quarter’s productivity data. …this quarter will be good news and a huge turnaround from the productivity numbers we saw in the first half of 2022.

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Corrected: What Difference Does It Make If Spending Is Over One Year or Forty? None to the New York Times

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 21, 2022

21 12:16:00 Octubre 2022

We have a right to expect more serious budget reporting from the country’s leading newspaper.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónInflationJobsTrabajosUnited StatesEE. UU.WorkersSector del trabajo

Is Inflation Forcing People to Live Paycheck to Paycheck?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 20, 2022

20 15:21:00 Octubre 2022

While many people undoubtedly are being squeezed by inflation, it is not clear why there would be more people living paycheck to paycheck today than before the pandemic, when most news outlets were touting the strong economy.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónInflationUnited StatesEE. UU.

Retailers Slashing Prices, More Bad News for Biden! (New York Times Edition)

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 18, 2022

18 17:22:00 Octubre 2022

Like the Washington Post article, the piece pretty much ignored the fact that large markdowns will be good news for people troubled by inflation. But, the New York Times one-upped the Post on this one.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónInflationUnited StatesEE. UU.

Inflation, Inflation, Inflation and Social Security

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 16, 2022

16 13:38:00 Octubre 2022

“… Social Security was in a crisis because ... If that is all you ever hear about Social Security, then you might come to believe the program is in a crisis.”

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónInflationUnited StatesEE. UU.

Inflation: There’s Good News Today!

By Dean BakerDean Baker

October 15, 2022

15 16:43:00 Octubre 2022

I know that my prognostications on inflation have to be viewed with some serious skepticism at this point, but I would urge people to just look at the data.