Publications

It’s Going to Be a Long and Harsh Recession: NYT Warns of Skills Gap

The reason we have high unemployment today, and may have high unemployment for some time into the future, is not a lack of skills, it is a failure of economic policy.

Dean Baker / July 14, 2020

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Economic Growth

Several Hard-Hit Sectors Reverse Previous Price Drops in June

Gasoline, hotel, and airline prices all rose sharply in June, partly reversing earlier declines.

Dean Baker / July 14, 2020

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The Stock Market and MMT: The Dow Is Not Your Friend

Dean Baker / July 14, 2020

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Path Dependency versus Social Unionism in Healthcare: Bringing Employers Back in

A central problem in contemporary employment relations is the fragmentation of work. This process is occurring in health systems as they decentralize services from hospitals to outpatient centers.

Eileen Appelbaum, John Kallas and Rosemary Batt / July 13, 2020

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Ross Douthat Shows Trouble With Arithmetic In New York Times Column on China’s “Decade”

Dean Baker / July 13, 2020

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Propaganda on Government Action and Inequality from David Leonhardt

Dean Baker / July 10, 2020

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US Foreign Policy

US Foreign Police Training Has Spawned Brutality Both At Home and Abroad

From the Cold War, to the War on Drugs, to the War on Terror, the US has encouraged the development of aggressive and militarized law enforcement forces throughout Latin America, an authoritarian set of policies which eventually echoes back to the US and

Brett Heinz / July 10, 2020

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World Trade Organization

Digital Trade Rules: A Disastrous New Constitution for the Global Economy Written By and for Big Tech

The largest corporations in the history of the world ― Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft ― are seeking to use “trade” rules to rig the rules of the global (digital) economy to enable them to collect more data, exercise more control over our l

Deborah James / July 08, 2020

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Combating the Political Power of the Rich: Wealth Taxes and Seattle Election Vouchers

It is certainly true that the rich and very rich enjoy enormous political power under our current system, but it does not follow that attacking their wealth is the most effective way to restore a more functional democracy. To see this point, just imagine

Dean Baker / July 08, 2020

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Latin America and the Caribbean

IMF

Latin America Needs Access to Resources Without Generating Debt: Issuance of Special Drawing Rights

Latin America is going through multiple crises, the perfect storm is brewing in the region, with severe sanitary limitations to face the Covid-19 and in the face of the deepest recession since the Great Depression (1872-1896).

Andrés Arauz and Patricia Miranda / July 08, 2020

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Is it Impossible to Envision a World Without Patent Monopolies?

Apparently, at the New York Times, the answer is no.

Dean Baker / July 06, 2020

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The Problem of Medical Supplies Was a Stockpile Problem, not a China Supply Chain Problem

Those shortages stemmed from the government's failure to maintain adequate stockpiles of essential equipment.

Dean Baker / July 06, 2020

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Profit Shares Soared After the Great Recession: News You Can’t Get at the New York Times

Dean Baker / July 03, 2020

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Economy Brings Back 4.8 Million Jobs in June, Unemployment at 11.1 Percent

Since February, employment rates for Black men and Hispanic men have dropped 9.4 percentage points and 10.3 percentage points, respectively.

Dean Baker / July 02, 2020

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Counterpoint: Unemployment Benefits Should Depend on the Pandemic

If the pandemic is out of control, we should be encouraging people to stay home, not to return to work.

Dean Baker / July 02, 2020

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Vacations for All

The McSally travel tax credit deserves to be widely mocked as another tax giveaway to the well-off. But progressives shouldn’t shy away from using social policy to reduce vacation inequality.

Shawn Fremstad / July 01, 2020

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Latin America and the Caribbean

World Bank

América Latina necesita acceder a recursos sin generar deuda: Emisión de Derechos Especiales de Giro

Una nueva ola de endeudamiento externo no debería ser la opción de salida de la crisis para los países de América Latina. Actualmente, la condonación o diferimiento del servicio de la deuda esta disponible para países de ingreso bajo.

Andrés Arauz and Patricia Miranda / July 01, 2020

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Affordable Care Act

Older Workers Targeted in Trump’s Lawsuit to End Obamacare

The ACA has many inadequacies, but it has allowed tens of millions to get insurance who could not otherwise. Donald Trump wants to take this insurance away.

Dean Baker / June 30, 2020

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