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08/10/2023
Should People Be Happy About the Biden Economy?

Dean Baker

Extraordinarily positive developments for large segments of the population.

11/09/2023
La politica industriale di Biden creerà più miliardari?

Dean Baker

Il mantenimento del conrollo della tecnologia finanziata dal governo non viene mai menzionato nei dibattiti sulla politica industriale e sulla disuguaglianza..

18/06/2023
Will Biden’s Industrial Policy Create a Lot More Moderna Billionaires?

Dean Baker

Maintaining control of the technology that the government funds is literally never mentioned in discussion of industrial policy and inequality.

18/06/2023
Joe Biden Has Given Us the Greatest Economy Ever

Dean Baker

Workers were hit by the worldwide inflation resulting from the pandemic but are again coming out ahead of inflation.

15/05/2023
Putting Numbers in a Wrong Context to Lie to Readers

Dean Baker

I have always advocated putting these numbers in some context, like a percent of the budget, a percent of GDP.

13/03/2023
The Washington Post Wants to Cut Social Security and Medicare

Dean Baker

The bizarre aspect of the Post’s editorial is that it indicates zero knowledge of the Medicare program.Healthcare spending has actually been failing as a share of GDP since the pandemic.

12/02/2023
Unemployment Falls Back, but Wage Growth Slows

Dean Baker

In the US unemployment falls back to half-century low. The pandemic increase in the length of the average workweek has been completely reversed.

09/01/2023
US - The saving rate is due to capital gains taxes, not people spendijg their savings

Dean Baker

The economy is on a path of healthy growth again. The return to positive productivity growth indicates that many of the problems are behind us and the economy will look much more normal going forward.

02/11/2022