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China and the Story of Supply and Demand

Sometimes things are in fact more complicated than they seem, but sometimes they actually are much simpler. The story of China’s weak economy falls...

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Dean Baker

Canada And Mexico Under Attack: The China Solution – OpEd

For reasons that obviously have nothing to do with reality, Donald Trump has decided to renege on the trade deal

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Dean Baker

Canada and Mexico Under Attack: The China Solution

For reasons that obviously have nothing to do with reality, Donald Trump has decided to renege on the trade deal he negotiated five years ago and...

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Dean Baker

The Confusions Of Donald Trump: The Case Of Supply And Demand – OpEd

Donald Trump is the world’s leading expert in getting things wrong and one thing he gets wrong bigly is the

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Dean Baker

The Confusions of Donald Trump: the Case of Supply and Demand

Donald Trump is the world’s leading expert in getting things wrong and one thing he gets wrong bigly is the value of the U.S. domestic market. Trump...

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Dean Baker

Ownership Of Twitter And Facebook Is A Big Deal, Who Would Have Known? – OpEd

I’m always happy when something I and others have been talking about for years makes it to the New York

31.01.2025 5

Dean Baker

Ownership of Twitter and Facebook is a Big Deal, Who Would Have Known?

I’m always happy when something I and others have been talking about for years makes it to the New York Times. For that reason, I was happy that New...

30.01.2025 10

Dean Baker

Trump’s Taxes (Tariffs) On Imports And Sales Taxes On Stocks (FTT) – OpEd

I have been pushing for financial transactions taxes (FTT) for more than three decades. The logic is straightforward. We have

30.01.2025 6

Dean Baker

Trump’s Taxes (Tariffs) on Imports and Sales Taxes on Stocks (FTT)

I have been pushing for financial transactions taxes (FTT) for more than three decades. The logic is straightforward. We have an enormous volume of...

29.01.2025 20

Dean Baker

There’s One Word for Trump’s Erratic Negotiating Strategy: “Stupid”

Donald Trump is carrying through his campaign pledge in threatening every country in the world with big taxes on the goods we import (tariffs) from...

28.01.2025 10

Dean Baker

Full Employment: One Last Time For The Road – OpEd

I’ve already given my Biden economy retrospective, but I want to come back and double down on the main point there,

21.01.2025 4

Dean Baker

Full Employment: One Last Time for the Road

I’ve already given my Biden economy retrospective, but I want to come back and double down on the main point there, because I think it is incredibly...

20.01.2025 10

Dean Baker

It Wasn’t Just Flawed Forecasts, Dishonesty Has Also Hurt Economists – OpEd

Ben Casselman has an interesting piece in the New York Times about how economists have lost standing with both politicians and the

18.01.2025 3

Dean Baker

Trump’s Tariffs Mean Taxes At Temu – OpEd

Donald Trump seems confused about how tariffs work, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us need to be also.

14.01.2025 10

Dean Baker

Trump’s Tariffs Mean Taxes at Temu

Donald Trump seems confused about how tariffs work, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us need to be also. It actually is fairly simple, let’s take...

13.01.2025 10

Dean Baker

Revising NYT History on Democrats Losing the Working Class

The New York Times had a lengthy piece giving a story on how the Democrats lost the support of working-class voters over the last three decades....

08.01.2025 5

Dean Baker

Stock Market And Budget Projections: Do The Numbers Add Up? – OpEd

It’s been a while since we’ve had Mr. Arithmetic here, but with Donald Trump coming back to the White House, we may need him around. The immediate...

07.01.2025 8

Dean Baker

Stock Market and Budget Projections: Do the Numbers Add Up?

It’s been a while since we’ve had Mr. Arithmetic here, but with Donald Trump coming back to the White House, we may need him around. The immediate...

06.01.2025 9

Dean Baker

Why China Stands to Benefit From Trump's Incoherent Trade Policy

If the U.S. is not going to be a reliable trading partner for at least the next four years, and possibly many more years into the future, Europe...

04.01.2025 7

Dean Baker

Best Bet For 2025: Stronger Trade Ties Between Europe And China – OpEd

One development for 2025 that can be seen clearly in the crystal ball is improving trade ties between China and Europe. The reason this is a...

04.01.2025 20

Dean Baker

Sen. Chris Coons and the Cult of Patent Monopolies

Last week, Delaware Senator Chris Coons, the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, made an assertion about the nature of...

31.12.2024 30

Dean Baker

Senator Chris Coons And The Cult Of Patent Monopolies – OpEd

Last week, Delaware Senator Chris Coons, the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, made an assertion about the nature of...

28.12.2024 4

Dean Baker

A Quick Note On Trade And Inequality – OpEd

Oren Cass, the head economist of Compass, had a column in the New York Times touting Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs. The gist of the piece is...

25.12.2024 2

Dean Baker

A Note on Trade and Inequality

We saw millions of workers displaced in manufacturing, as our trade deficit ballooned from 1997 to 2007. Communities across the industrial...

25.12.2024 2

Dean Baker

Fixing The Media And Campaign Spending By The Rich – OpEd

Virtually everyone, except Elon Musk, agrees that the rich have too much political power these days. When a single individual can put tens or even...

24.12.2024 3

Dean Baker

Fixing the Media and Campaign Spending by the Rich

Virtually everyone, except Elon Musk, agrees that the rich have too much political power these days. When a single individual can put tens or even...

23.12.2024 5

Dean Baker

To Defeat Trump and Musk, We Need a Tax Credit to Support Independent Media

Here's one clear way to counter the wealthy and corporations' control over journalism and our political system.

21.12.2024 2

Dean Baker

Bitcoin Won’t Put Food On The Table – OpEd

Bitcoin also won’t put gas in your car or provide medical care for your family. To be clear, I mean this literally. I realize people have made...

20.12.2024 8

Dean Baker

Bitcoin Won’t Put Food on the Table

Bitcoin also won’t put gas in your car or provide medical care for your family. To be clear, I mean this literally. I realize people have made...

19.12.2024 7

Dean Baker

Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something To Say – OpEd

I’m not one to generally tout the wisdom of the economics discipline, but it actually does offer some useful insights into the likely motive for...

17.12.2024 8

Dean Baker

Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something to Say

I’m not one to generally tout the wisdom of the economics discipline, but it actually does offer some useful insights into the likely motive for...

16.12.2024 6

Dean Baker

Corporate Income Tax Collections Rise When They Are Not Voluntary – OpEd

As Donald Trump prepares to embark on another round of MAGA tax cuts it is worth a quick review of the corporate side of the last one, and the...

14.12.2024 6

Dean Baker

Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something To Say – OpEd

I’m not one to generally tout the wisdom of the economics discipline, but it actually does offer some useful insights into the likely motive for...

13.12.2024 3

Dean Baker

Four Big Flaws In Trump’s Threat To China Over The Dollar – OpEd

Last week Donald Trump made a bizarre threat on his Truth Social site that he would impose 100 percent taxes on the imports (tariffs) from any...

06.12.2024 4

Dean Baker

Contrary To What The Washington Post Says, China Is Doing A Huge Amount To Fight Global Warming – OpEd

The Washington Post had a bizarre article last week in which it questioned whether China was doing much to combat global warming. While the piece...

04.12.2024 3

Dean Baker

Contrary to What the Washington Post Says, China is Doing a Huge Amount to Fight Global Warming

The Washington Post had a bizarre article last week in which it questioned whether China was doing much to combat global warming. While the piece...

03.12.2024 8

Dean Baker

RFK Jr., Physicians’ Pay Schedules, And The Elites’ Big Lie – OpEd

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is known first and foremost for his anti-vaccine crusades. However, he has also been saying some things that make sense. When...

28.11.2024 5

Dean Baker

RFK Jr., Physicians’ Pay Schedules, and the Elites’ Big Lie

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is known first and foremost for his anti-vaccine crusades. However, he has also been saying some things that make sense. When...

27.11.2024 10

Dean Baker

The Mainstream Media’s Big Lie – OpEd

Eduardo Porter joined the chorus of people telling us that the inequality of the last four decades was just the result of the free market in his...

27.11.2024 8

Dean Baker

The Mainstream Media’s Big Lie

Eduardo Porter joined the chorus of people telling us that the inequality of the last four decades was just the result of the free market in his...

26.11.2024 4

Dean Baker

The Mainstream Media’s Big Lie Never Stops – OpEd

Eduardo Porter joined the chorus of people telling us that the inequality of the last four decades was just the result of the free market in his...

21.11.2024 9

Dean Baker

The NYT Version of the Big Lie: Technology Created Inequality

There is a Big Lie pushed by centrist types that is almost as pernicious as the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. It is that...

12.11.2024 7

Dean Baker

Hurricanes And Boeing Strike Depress Job Growth, But Unemployment Remains Steady – OpEd

The October jobs report showed little gain in hiring, with establishments adding just 12,000 jobs. The number was depressed both by the effects of...

07.11.2024 6

Dean Baker

Hurricanes and Boeing Strike Depress Job Growth, But Unemployment Remains Steady

The October jobs report showed little gain in hiring, with establishments adding just 12,000 jobs. The number was depressed both by the effects of...

06.11.2024 8

Dean Baker

Three Additional Points On The NY Times’ Piece On Blah Voters – OpEd

The New York Times’ lead homepage article Thursday told readers that in spite of a batch of really good economic data, “voters still feel...

02.11.2024 1

Dean Baker

Four More Items in the Wages Outpacing Prices Debate

Ben Casselman had a useful piece in the New York Times examining the extent to which wages have outpaced prices since the pandemic. While he notes...

31.10.2024 4

Dean Baker

Four More Items In The Wages Outpacing Prices Debate – OpEd

Ben Casselman had a useful piece in the New York Times examining the extent to which wages have outpaced prices since the pandemic. While he notes...

29.10.2024 1

Dean Baker

Patent Monopolies And PBMs: Protectionism Leads To Corruption – OpEd

Last week I saw a somewhat shabbily dressed man in the pharmacy trying to get a Covid booster. They told him it would cost $130. (It was the...

26.10.2024 4

Dean Baker

CNBC Hides Extent To Which Trump Tax Proposal Would Hurt Moderate And Middle-Income Families – OpEd

CNBC, which is owned and controlled by people who will pay lower taxes with Donald Trump back in the White House, ran a PR piece for Donald Trump’s...

25.10.2024 3

Dean Baker

CNBC Hides the Extent to Which Trump Tax Proposal Would Hurt Moderate and Middle-Income Families

CNBC, which is owned and controlled by people who will pay lower taxes with Donald Trump back in the White House, ran a PR piece for Donald Trump’s...

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Stock Market And Budget Projections: Do The Numbers Add Up? – OpEd

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Why China Stands to Benefit From Trump's Incoherent Trade Policy

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Best Bet For 2025: Stronger Trade Ties Between Europe And China – OpEd

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Sen. Chris Coons and the Cult of Patent Monopolies

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A Quick Note On Trade And Inequality – OpEd

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Fixing The Media And Campaign Spending By The Rich – OpEd

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Fixing the Media and Campaign Spending by the Rich

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To Defeat Trump and Musk, We Need a Tax Credit to Support Independent Media

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Bitcoin Won’t Put Food On The Table – OpEd

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Bitcoin Won’t Put Food on the Table

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Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something To Say – OpEd

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Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something to Say

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Corporate Income Tax Collections Rise When They Are Not Voluntary – OpEd

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Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something To Say – OpEd

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Four Big Flaws In Trump’s Threat To China Over The Dollar – OpEd

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Contrary To What The Washington Post Says, China Is Doing A Huge Amount To Fight Global Warming – OpEd

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Contrary to What the Washington Post Says, China is Doing a Huge Amount to Fight Global Warming

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RFK Jr., Physicians’ Pay Schedules, And The Elites’ Big Lie – OpEd

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RFK Jr., Physicians’ Pay Schedules, and the Elites’ Big Lie

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The Mainstream Media’s Big Lie – OpEd