Publications

Intellectual Property

The Burden of the Debt: Lessons for Biden Adviser Ted Kaufman

Dean Baker / August 20, 2020

Article Artículo

Should We Be More Worried About the Economy?

We are struggling to make sense of data, which often has a substantial lag.

Dean Baker / August 19, 2020

Article Artículo

Special Announcement

Dawn Niederhauser / August 19, 2020

Article Artículo

Quick Note on Lost GDP Due to Shutdowns

Some folks have complained about the loss of GDP over the last five months and questioned whether the shutdowns have been worth the price.

Dean Baker / August 17, 2020

Article Artículo

Pandemic Leads to More Precarious Housing Situation

Housing insecurity is much higher today, particularly among renters, than before the pandemic.

Julie Yixia Cai and Shawn Fremstad / August 14, 2020

Article Artículo

Government

Wall Street

INSIGHT: The Simple Fix For Corporate Income Tax—Tax Stock Returns

Instead of taxing corporate profits, we should be taxing stock returns.

Dean Baker / August 14, 2020

Article Artículo

IMF

US Foreign Policy

Evans-Frantz: Sen. Leahy Should Lead on Global COVID Response

The U.S. has veto power at the IMF, so without U.S. support, this life saving and cost-free opportunity will be wasted.

CEPR, Cavan Kharrazian and Isaac Evans-Frantz / August 14, 2020

Prices Byte Artículo

Economic Growth

United States

Overall and Core CPI Both Rise 0.6 Percent in July as Price Reversals Continue

Rental inflation appears to be slowing, especially in high-priced cities.

Dean Baker / August 12, 2020

Article Artículo

Economic Growth

United Kingdom Economy Contracted at a 59.9 Percent Rate in Second Quarter

The contraction in the UK was actually far worse than the contraction in the United States.

Dean Baker / August 12, 2020

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When Trump Proposes Giving More Money to the Rich, NYT Mind Readers Know That He’s Doing it to Increase Growth

Fortunately, the NYT has a staff of mind readers who can keep us better informed.

Dean Baker / August 12, 2020

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Intellectual Property

Financing Drug Development: What the Pandemic Has Taught Us

The issue here is how much the government would have to spend on advanced funding to get the same results as we see with patent monopoly financed research.

Dean Baker / August 11, 2020

Article Artículo

Latin America and the Caribbean

Workers

The Same Racist Rhetoric Used To Oppose D.C. Statehood Keeps The Federal Government Dysfunctional

Conservatives like Cotton have long villainized African-American pathways to the middle class that include government employment.

August 10, 2020

Jobs Byte Artículo

Economic Growth

United States

Workers

Economy Creates 1.8 Million Jobs in July, Production Workers’ Wages Fall

The July employment report showed the economy adding another 1,761,000 jobs in July.

Dean Baker / August 07, 2020

Article Artículo

Government

Private Equity

United States

A Day One Agenda for Private Equity

Over the past decade, private equity has crept and crawled into all corners of our lives. Everywhere you look across our ruinous, virus-riddled landscape, private equity is there.

Eileen Appelbaum / August 07, 2020

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Ecuador

US Foreign Policy

World

The Political Exile of Ecuador’s Rafael Correa

CEPR senior policy analyst and Ecuador's former foreign minister Guillaume Long talked to This Is Hell about lawfare, the barring of former president Rafael Correa's party from the ballot, and Ecuador's turn toward austerity and the IMF under Moreno.

Dan Beeton / August 07, 2020

Article Artículo

Private Equity

NYT Does a Little Editorializing for Private Equity Company

Dean Baker / August 05, 2020

Article Artículo

Note on Non-Responses to E-Mail

Dean Baker / August 04, 2020

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