Stephen Prager for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser boasted on Fox Business Thursday that the government had slashed more than 300,000 “high-paying” jobs from the federal payroll…
United and other insurers make a profit by restricting the claims they pay, so their profit motive goes directly against people’s need to get healthcare.
China is selling EVs, solar panels, batteries and other clean technologies at hugely subsidized prices.
The story of doctors’ pay is big money, more than is at stake in things like the expanded child tax credit or other issues that we often have major political…
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press Leading media outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker have about as much concern for intellectual consistency as…
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) Mark Twain famously quipped that everyone always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it. (This was before…
By Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) The Washington Post has a long history of hating on powerful unions, like the United Auto Workers (UAW), or…
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) The New York Times editorial board came to a shocking realization this week: we are living on borrowed money. That was the…
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…
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…
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…
The overall Consumer Price Index rose 0.1 percent in August, core was up 0.6 percent; up 8.3 percent and 6.3 percent year-over-year, respectively.
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press/CEPR The standard line in policy circles about the soaring inequality of the last four decades is that it is just an unfortunate outcome…
The Federal Reserve says wages should go down to get inflation under control. What if we just stopped corporate profiteering and the lax rules that make it possible?
By Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, announced plans last week for the state to set up its own manufacturing facility to produce…
