Do People Really Expect Prices To Fall Back To Pre-Pandemic Levels? – OpEd
Catherine Rampell had an interesting column dealing with the question of when prices will “come back down?” Rampell correctly answered “never,” but
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Author: Dean Baker
Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy.
Articles by Dean Baker :
Quick Thoughts On The UAW Strike – OpEd
The strike of the UAW against the Big Three automakers raises many important issues that go well beyond the auto
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Section 230: Can We Talk About It? – Analysis
There is considerable handwringing over the fact that Elon Musk now controls Twitter and is making ad hoc decisions, based
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Should People be Happy About The Biden Economy? – Analysis
We constantly see reports in the media that people are unhappy about the economy and they blame President Biden. I,
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A Slightly Scary, But Overall US Positive Jobs Report – Analysis
The August jobs report gave a somewhat mixed picture. The unemployment rate rose from 3.5 percent in July to 3.8
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In His Next Term, Trump Will Be Forecasting The Weather – OpEd
That’s right, he also will be telling us which drugs we can use, which planes are safe, and what chemicals
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Can We Stop The Charade? It Was Never About ‘Free Trade’ – OpEd
Over the last four decades, administrations of both political parties have pushed trade deals that were designed to redistribute income
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Are People In China Now Substantially Richer Than People In Mexico? – OpEd
That would be the implication of a claim about China’s population reported in Peter Coy’s NYT column. Coy cites the views
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When AI Assists Workers, It’s Replacing Them – OpEd
The discussion of AI continues to be almost otherworldly. We often see a contrast between the idea that AI will “assist” workers
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Trump’s $3.6 Trillion Dollar Tax Hike – OpEd
Most candidates would not make a huge tax hike a center piece in their presidential campaign, but Donald Trump is
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