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Sat, 04/02/2023 - 02:29

Nicaragua ranks first among countries whose citizens feel at peace. Despite this, US media demonizes its Sandinista government, has sponsored violent coup attempts and has hit the country with crippling sanctions.

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Created
Wed, 11/01/2023 - 01:35

(The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday, January 12th at 8:30 AM Eastern Time.) The overall inflation rate in November was just 0.1 percent, held down by a 2.0 percent drop in gas prices. However, inflation in the core index was also moderate, coming […]

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Created
Tue, 10/01/2023 - 08:43

Nothing shines a brighter light on the harmful effects of bad intellectual property law than an ongoing pandemic. CEPR’s researchers continue to advocate for reform of this broken system which causes so much damage here in the US and abroad. This year saw some success from the long campaign to waive COVID vaccine patents for […]

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Created
Fri, 30/12/2022 - 00:00

To understand the attempted coup that culminated in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, it is useful to go back to Donald Trump’s immediate response to the election he actually won, in 2016. The head of his transition team, Chris Christie, then governor of New Jersey, presented Trump with a detailed plan […]

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