Author: Dean Baker
This Week the Federal Trade Commission Votes on Restricting Anti-Market Employer Practice The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold hearings starting Tuesday... Read more.
Not Only Are Social Media Companies Not Liable for Spreading Defamatory Material, but They Can Actually Profit From It Our main headline asks: Can the State of ... Read more.
Wages Rise Faster than Rents Under Biden; The Opposite Under Trump There have been numerous stories in recent months about how housing is unaffordable for milli... Read more.
Spending at $1 Trillion Dollar Below Projections When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he said that if he got elected, we would get tired of winning. ... Read more.
Drug Patent Monopolies Cost Each Family $5,000 per Year It is incredible how ideology can be so thick that it prevents even highly educated people from thinking... Read more.
When It Comes to Prescription Drugs, The Washington Post Can’t Even Conceive of Free Trade Like many self-imagined “free-traders,” the Washington Post edi... Read more.
Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plans Are Generous, but Most Borrowers Are Unaware of Their Options There have been numerous stories in the media about how the... Read more.
The United States support of Ukraine, following the invasion by Russia, has featured prominently in the news in recent days as Republicans in Congress have made... Read more.
Those Smart New Rules to Spot Troubled Banks — Oops! Last week a Wall Street Journal column claimed that the Federal Reserve Board’s stress tests would... Read more.
Trump Gave Mid-size Banks and Big Depositors a Free Lunch Two key points about the decision to guarantee all the deposits at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB): It was a... Read more.