Publications

Health and Social Programs

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

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

Dean Baker / February 04, 2021

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How to Make Joe Biden’s Budget Better Part II: Public Investment and the Green New Deal — Do Everything!

In Part I of this series, we addressed two of the immediate needs facing the Federal Government: cash assistance to individuals, and to state and local governments. Here in Part II, we confine our discussion to public investment, narrowly defined.

Max B. Sawicky / February 03, 2021

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Economic Policy

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?

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

Dean Baker / February 03, 2021

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Jobs

Workers

PREVIEW: What to Look for in the January Jobs Report

The continued surge in coronavirus cases will again be the main story in the January employment report.

Dean Baker / February 02, 2021

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Dealing with a Pandemic as If Human Lives Mattered

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

Dean Baker / February 02, 2021

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Honduras

Mexico

US Foreign Policy

Will Biden Get Serious about Addressing Root Causes of Displacement and Migration?

New executive orders provide little assurance that the Biden administration will truly address “root causes” of displacement and migration from Central America.

Dan Beeton / February 02, 2021

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Financial Transaction Tax

The Robinhood/GameStop “Scandal”

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

Dean Baker / January 31, 2021

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The GameStop Game and Financial Transactions Taxes

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.

Dean Baker / January 29, 2021

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Economic Growth

Four Percent Fourth Quarter Growth Leaves GDP 2.5 Percent Below Year-Ago Level

Consumption spending has been contracting over the course of the fourth quarter

Dean Baker / January 28, 2021

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World

CEPR News: The Fierce Urgency of Now

CEPR News for January 28, 2021

Dan Beeton / January 28, 2021

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Quick Thoughts on the “Evils” of Share Buybacks

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.

Dean Baker / January 28, 2021

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Quick Thoughts on the Minimum Wage

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.

Dean Baker / January 27, 2021

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Economic Growth

PREVIEW: What to Look for in the Fourth Quarter 2020 GDP Report

We will see a strong but more normal rate of growth in the fourth quarter, however that is a misleading picture of the overall state of the economy.

Dean Baker / January 26, 2021

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Thomas Friedman: The Donald Trump of the New York Times

Dean Baker / January 26, 2021

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The Coronavirus Vaccine Fail and International Elites

The fact that it wasn’t just the United States that missed this standard, but also every country in Europe, indicates an enormous failure of public health systems.

Dean Baker / January 25, 2021

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The New York Times Has Not Heard About China’s Vaccines (or Russia or India’s)

If developing countries are unable to get access to the vaccines developed by western drug companies, it is likely that they will turn to the vaccines developed by these three countries.

Dean Baker / January 24, 2021

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