Publications

The NYT Prints Usual Nonsense About Bubbles

These pieces always show a failure to understand the most basic features of the Great Recession.

Dean Baker / November 01, 2020

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Government

Financial Transaction Tax

Letter on Proposed Rulemaking: Affidavit of Support on Behalf of Immigrants, Department of Homeland Security Docket No. USCIS– 2019–0023

Comments of Shawn Fremstad, Senior Fellow, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC. Submitted on Regulations.gov on November 1, 2020.

Shawn Fremstad / November 01, 2020

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Wall Street

Financial Transactions Taxes: A Wall Street Levy that Won’t Affect Pension Funds

This paper examines two issues related to pension funds and Financial Transactions Taxes.

Dean Baker / October 30, 2020

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Intellectual Property

Changes that Would Make a Difference in the Biden Administration

There is a limit to how much we can improve living standards at the bottom and middle if we don’t take a whack at the top.

Dean Baker / October 30, 2020

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Economic Growth

Record 33.1 Percent Surge Still Leaves GDP 3.5 Percent Below Pre-Pandemic Level

The trade deficit reached a record in the third quarter.

Dean Baker / October 29, 2020

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Brazil

Globalization and Trade

Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro Plot to Get Brazilians Killed

Bolsonaro’s move was purely an effort to satisfy his friend Donald Trump. He apparently has no more respect for the lives of the people in Brazil than Trump does for people in the United States.

Dean Baker / October 29, 2020

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Economic Growth

PREVIEW: What to Look for in the Third Quarter GDP Report

While we are virtually certain to see record growth for GDP in the third quarter, without a new stimulus package a drop is likely in the fourth quarter.

Dean Baker / October 27, 2020

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Government

The Rise in Material Hardship Among Working-Class Whites and How It Could Impact the 2020 Election

The rise in material hardship among lower-income whites without college degrees will likely make it harder for Trump to hold on to these important swing voters in the election.

Mariko Lewis, Julie Yixia Cai and Shawn Fremstad / October 27, 2020

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Washington Post Reports on How Top Execs at Bankrupt Companies Get Large Bonuses

Bloated CEO pay is simply corruption that generates inequality, and shareholders should be allies in stopping it.

Dean Baker / October 27, 2020

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Red State Governors Still Flunk Coronavirus Testing

I argued that positive test rates are a good measure of how serious the governors are in trying to bring the pandemic under control.

Dean Baker / October 26, 2020

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Intellectual Property

Yet Another Diatribe on Patent Monopolies and How They Are Not Talked About in Polite Company

I don’t know why reporters, economists, and other policy types don’t talk about the abuses and waste created by patent and copyright monopolies. I just know that they don’t.

Dean Baker / October 26, 2020

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Democracy

Mexico

Mexico at the OAS General Assembly: Almagro Undermined the OAS Charter and Damaged Bolivia’s Democracy

The most scathing public indictment of Almagro’s actions has come from Mexico, whose Subsecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean delivered a scathing indictment of the current General Secretary for his unilateral decision-making, support for harmful

Cavan Kharrazian / October 23, 2020

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Affordable Care Act

The Impact of the Pandemic on Superstar Cities

It is still too early to make any definitive judgements, but as remote work becomes more accepted, it is hard to believe that many people will not take the opportunity to move to lower cost parts of the country.

Dean Baker / October 23, 2020

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Datos de las Elecciones Bolivianas Añaden Más Pruebas de que la OEA Fabricó Las Denuncias de Fraude del Año Pasado

Esas 226 actas nunca mostraron un fraude, como afirmó la OEA. Sin embargo, sí revelan cómo la OEA privó de sus derechos a decenas de miles de indígenas bolivianos en sus descarados intentos por justificar la destitución antidemocrática de un líder electo.

Jake Johnston / October 22, 2020

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US Foreign Policy

Data from Bolivia’s Election Add More Evidence That OAS Fabricated Last Year’s Fraud Claims

Jake Johnston / October 21, 2020

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Democracy

Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy

The overwhelming MAS election victory is a repudiation of the racist coup regime as well as the Trump administration and the OAS, which helped install it.

Mark Weisbrot / October 21, 2020

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Intellectual Property

Government-Granted Patent Monopolies Gave Purdue Pharma Incentives to Push Opioids

Maybe this is too obvious a point, but I don't see it mentioned in news coverage of the company's settlement.

Dean Baker / October 21, 2020

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Two Interviews on the Bolivian Coup and Its Aftermath

Two new interviews recorded for a new podcast, “While We were Sleeping,” offer useful context for the October 18 general elections just carried out in Bolivia.

CEPR and Francesca Emanuele / October 20, 2020

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Bolivian Elections Live Blog

Bolivians go to the polls October 18 in the first general elections since democratically elected president Evo Morales was forced out in a military coup.

October 18, 2020

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