by Dean Baker | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Health
I like Jonathan Cohn personally and have great respect for his work as a reporter and writer on health care issues. However, I think he actually told readers the opposite of what he intended in his Huffington Post piece headlined, "this one line sums up the big...
by Dean Baker | Mar 29, 2016 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Lately the media have been going wild mocking Donald Trump’s plans to put 45 percent tariffs on imports from China. They are partly right. It’s not clever to indiscriminately impose large tariffs on major trading partners in violation of existing trade agreements. On...
by Dean Baker | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
NPR had a bizarre piece on the Labor Department's new overtime rules which seemed intended to undermine support for them. These rules would increase from $23,660 to $50,440, the floor under which salaried workers would automatically qualify for overtime regardless of...
by Dean Baker | May 18, 2015 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has taken center stage in policy circles in recent weeks. Its proponents promise a major economic bonanza from expanded trade. It's not clear that the economics supports this claim. The United States Department of...
by Dean Baker | May 8, 2015 | Current Issues, Financial Reform
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the flash crash. For those who don’t remember, the Flash Crash was when the stock market lost almost 9 percent of its value from its opening level, with most of this decline occurring in a 5-minute period. The market quickly...
