February 08, 2021

08 Febrero 2021

I have never considered wealth a very good measure of inequality for several reasons.

• Economic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperación

Excessive Stimulus and Other Things Larry Summers Worries About

By Dean BakerDean Baker

February 05, 2021

05 Febrero 2021

Summer's does raise a very reasonable concern, but there is so much upside to this package, with a comparatively small downside risk, that it definitely seems worth the gamble.

• Economic GrowthEl DesarolloWall StreetEl Mundo Financiero

Getting Lazy in Discussing Winning in the Stock Market

By Dean BakerDean Baker

February 04, 2021

04 Febrero 2021

It is not necessarily bad to invest in a stock index, but the returns may not be quite what some people would expect.

• COVID-19CoronavirusEconomic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Should People Who Want to Save the World from the Pandemic Be Demanding We Pay China to Produce Billions of Vaccine Doses?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

February 04, 2021

04 Febrero 2021

The bottom line is that we need to get people throughout the world vaccinated as quickly as possible.

• Economic PolicyInequalityLa Desigualdad

The Price of Wheat Doesn’t Tell Us About the Strength of the Economy and Neither Does the Stock Market: Why Is This so Hard for Intellectual Types to Understand?

By Dean BakerDean Baker

February 03, 2021

03 Febrero 2021

The stock market is not designed to tell us about the economy. It tells us about after-tax corporate profits: Full Stop.

• COVID-19CoronavirusEconomic Crisis and RecoveryCrisis económica y recuperaciónIntellectual PropertyPropiedad Intelectual

Dealing with a Pandemic as If Human Lives Mattered

By Dean BakerDean Baker

February 02, 2021

02 Febrero 2021

Conclusion – The World Has Messed Up Big Time in Dealing with the Pandemic

• InequalityLa Desigualdad

The Robinhood/GameStop “Scandal”

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 31, 2021

31 Enero 2021

I have to admit, I don't quite see the scandal here.

• Financial Transaction TaxInequalityLa Desigualdad

The GameStop Game and Financial Transactions Taxes

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 29, 2021

29 Enero 2021

This episode should help us to see the stock market with open eyes. Much of what takes place there is clearly gambling. We let people gamble in other contexts, but we tax it. There is no reason we shouldn’t tax it on Wall Street.

• InequalityLa Desigualdad

Quick Thoughts on the “Evils” of Share Buybacks

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 28, 2021

28 Enero 2021

The moral of the evil buyback story ... [is] that we need to crack down on CEOs ripping off their companies and bring their pay down to earth.

• InequalityLa Desigualdad

Quick Thoughts on the Minimum Wage

By Dean BakerDean Baker

January 27, 2021

27 Enero 2021

We should realize that there are some pretty big thumbs on the scale in the minimum wage battle, and those thumbs want to show that minimum wage hikes will cause job loss.