Publications

It Was Not “Flaws in the U.S. Financial System” that Caused the Great Recession, It Was the Collapse of the Housing Bubble

There is a great interest in pretending the story is complicated to excuse such an enormous policy failure.

Dean Baker / September 07, 2020

Article Artículo

Latin America and the Caribbean

Do Most Economists Think Government Deficits Should Have Been Lower Before the Pandemic Hit?

Most of the discussion is quite good, but one item that raised my eyebrow was in the section on deficits.

Dean Baker / September 06, 2020

Article Artículo

Brazil

US Foreign Policy

World

Interview with Mark Weisbrot on the US Election, the Brazilian Economy, and US-Brazil Relations

Mark Weisbrot / September 06, 2020

Article Artículo

New York Times Again Forgets to Mention the Foolproof Way to Prevent Foreign Governments from Stealing Vaccine Research

Of course that would be having open research that was freely shared.

Dean Baker / September 05, 2020

Jobs Byte Artículo

Workers

Economy Adds 1.4 Million Jobs in August, Unemployment Falls to 8.4 Percent

Even with strong job growth the last four months, we have recovered less than half the jobs lost due to the pandemic.

Dean Baker / September 04, 2020

Article Artículo

Workers

Labor Day under Coronavirus and Depression: What is Our Government Doing to Labor?

Who would want to be forcing layoffs—potentially totaling millions at the state and local level—during a depression and pandemic?

Mark Weisbrot / September 04, 2020

Article Artículo

Government

Trump’s ‘America First’ Vaccine Agenda May Leave Us Last

By using the usual patent monopoly framework rather than international open-source collaboration, the coronavirus vaccine may prove both elusive and more costly for Americans.

Dean Baker / September 04, 2020

Article Artículo

Budget

Health and Social Programs

Post Fact-Checker Buys Trump’s “Just Joking” Defense on Eliminating Social Security

The Washington Post's fact-checker gave the Biden campaign four Pinocchios, saying that Trump has always promised to protect Social Security.

Dean Baker / September 04, 2020

Article Artículo

Globalization and Trade

Inequality

Seeing the Last Acceptable Prejudice Clearly: The More Educated Screwed the Less-Educated

It was not the natural forces of globalization and technology that made the less-educated big losers, it was how we structured these forces.

Dean Baker / September 02, 2020

Article Artículo

Latin America and the Caribbean

The Old Japan’s Debt Burden is Reaching Its Limits Story

Japan is a huge embarrassment for the deficit hawks.

Dean Baker / August 31, 2020

Article Artículo

Haiti

US Foreign Policy

State Department Awarded Contract to Politically Connected Security Firm

Jake Johnston / August 31, 2020

Article Artículo

Affordable Care Act

Inequality

Are Corporate CEOs Worth $20 Million?

This simple and important question does not get anywhere near the attention it deserves.

Dean Baker / August 31, 2020

Article Artículo

New York Times Reports that 0.01 Percent of the Paycheck Protection Program was Fraudulently Spent

Yep, that's its big story for the day, although people probably saw the number $62 million in the headline.

Dean Baker / August 29, 2020

Article Artículo

Spending on Prescription Drugs: Lies My President Told Me #3,475,652

Dean Baker / August 29, 2020

Article Artículo

Government

Inequality