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Full Employment: One Last Time For The Road – OpEd

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

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

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

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

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trump’s Tariffs Mean Taxes At Temu – OpEd

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

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

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

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...

07.01.2025 8

Eurasia Review

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...

06.01.2025 9

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

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

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

Common Dreams

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

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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 3

Eurasia Review

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

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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 2

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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 1

Common Dreams

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

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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 3

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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

Eurasia Review

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

Eurasia Review

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

Eurasia Review

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 2

Eurasia Review

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 7

CounterPunch

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

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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 7

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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

Eurasia Review

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 4

CounterPunch

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

Eurasia Review

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

CounterPunch

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...

29.10.2024 1

Eurasia Review

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

Eurasia Review

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...

25.10.2024 2

Eurasia Review

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...

24.10.2024 40

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

The Biden-Harris Job Boom – OpEd

Donald Trump seems to have forgotten what the economy was like when he left office. He talks as though it

24.10.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

The Biden-Harris Job Boom

Donald Trump seems to have forgotten what the economy was like when he left office. He talks as though it was booming and then Biden sank it. In...

23.10.2024 2

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

CNN Tells Harris Not To Talk About The Economy – OpEd

CNN has been at the forefront in pushing the Biden bad economy story in defiance of the data. It had two of my six favorite untruths about the...

16.10.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

CNN Tells Harris Not to Talk About the Economy

CNN has been at the forefront in pushing the Biden bad economy story in defiance of the data. It had two of my six favorite untruths about the...

16.10.2024 3

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Should Harris Be Celebrating The Labor Market? – OpEd

New York Times columnist Peter Coy raised an interesting point about the September jobs data in his column this week. Most of us were celebrating...

12.10.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Mozart’s Latest Track Just Dropped – OpEd

By Katrina Gulliver A new piece by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been discovered. Believed to have been written when Mozart was a teenager, the 12-...

10.10.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Tariffs And Government-Granted Patent Monopolies: Bad And ‘Good’ Forms Of Protectionism – OpEd

Donald Trump’s promise to impose taxes of 10-20 percent on all imports (more for imports from China) has put protectionism front and center in...

10.10.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Tariffs and Government-Granted Patent Monopolies: Bad and “Good” Forms of Protectionism

Trump’s promise to impose taxes of 10-20 percent on all imports (more for imports from China) has put protectionism front and center in U.S....

09.10.2024 4

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Automation Is Called ‘Productivity Growth’ – OpEd

It is more than a bit bizarre reading pieces that talk about automation or job-killing AI as something new and alien. These are forms of...

09.10.2024 7

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Automation is Called “Productivity Growth”

It is more than a bit bizarre reading pieces that talk about automation or job-killing AI as something new and alien. These are forms of...

08.10.2024 30

CounterPunch

Dean Baker