In a free market, drugs are cheap Government-granted patent monopolies make them expensive Dean Baker This simple point was left out of a Washington Post…
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Global warming and the threat of cheap Chinese electric vehicles Dean Baker Suppose the G-7 finance ministers sat down and worked out a plan to…
Finance and crypto are waste and a drag on the economy Dean Baker As everyone learns in Econ 101, and immediately forgets, the purpose of…
NYT headlines article “Public tired of ‘neoliberal’ policies designed to make the rich richer” – Dean Baker Of course, the New York Times did not…
The post NYT headlines article first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) There is a standard tale of politics where conservatives want to leave things to the market, whereas the left want a big role for government. The right likes to tell this story because it advantages them politically, since most people tend to have a positive view of […]
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By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) An item in Ezra Klein’s NYT column yesterday really grabbed by attention. Ezra cited a Wall Street Journal column that claimed that the Federal Reserve Board’s stress tests would not have detected Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) problems, because its stress tests did not consider interest rate risk. This struck me as […]
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By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) The January data on consumer expenditures released yesterday had a lot of people freaking out. The story is that the Fed is going have to get out the big guns to really shoot inflation down. For those of us hoping that inflation would come down, without a […]
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