Stories by Mark Weisbrot
Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012, Source: Comment Is Free
With a brain trust like this, a lost decade for America looks likely – unless the citizenry can steer a different course.
Posted on Nov 6, 2010, Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
By failing to stimulate economic recovery, the Dems gave the GOP a populist card on a platter.
Posted on Jul 29, 2010, Source: Comment Is Free
Much of the argument for deficit reduction is economically illiterate, but even an expert like Ken Rogoff can be wrong on fiscal austerity
Posted on Dec 4, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The president-elect has the opportunity to forge a new relationship with the region after Bush drove U.S.-Latin American relations into a ditch.
Posted on Nov 18, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Can South America escape the wrath of the economic and financial storms that have their epicenter in the United States?
Posted on Oct 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Republicans push policies that redistribute income from working and middle-class Americans to the rich. No wonder people are turning to Obama.
Posted on Oct 12, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future
A broader stimulus package is desperately needed to right a listing economic ship.
Posted on Oct 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The bailout's supporters said Congress had to do something to unfreeze the credit markets. It didn't work.
Posted on Sep 30, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Trade is not an end in itself -- the goal is to improve people's living standards.
Posted on Sep 16, 2008, Source: AlterNet
This legislation would give employees a fighting chance to regain some of their lost rights.
Posted on Aug 27, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A wealthy minority in Bolivia seems determined to thwart the changes demanded by a majority of the population.
Posted on Aug 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A "green stimulus" package would give the economy a lift while simultaneously reducing energy consumption.
Posted on Jul 22, 2008, Source: AlterNet
For something that's not supposed to exist, the anti-war movement sure was effective in fighting a recent resolution to blockade Iran.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The Senator appears clueless on a number of crucial policy areas.
Posted on Jun 24, 2008, Source: AlterNet
If your local sporting goods store can collect and pay a sales tax on the running shoes that it sells, the big internet retailers can do the same.
Posted on Jun 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Political chasm between Washington and Latin America continues to deepen, as Chavez rejects FARC's armed campaign.
Posted on May 29, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
Nobody can predict exactly where the bottom will be, but it's clear that we're not even close to hitting it.
Posted on May 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to disasters of its own making, the agency is losing money and influence.
Posted on Apr 7, 2008, Source: AlterNet
If Obama convinces white working-class voters that he cares about their economic plight, he will become the 44th President of the United States.
Posted on Mar 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Big Pharma is up in arms about developing countries importing less expensive generic versions of their drugs.
Posted on Mar 12, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The mass media has become one of the most important obstacles to social and economic progress in the 21st century.
Posted on Feb 27, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The corporate-owned media play a large, often unnoticed role in U.S. national politics.
Posted on Feb 16, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Bolivian officials say Washington is trying to destabilize and even topple their democratic government.
Posted on Feb 6, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Given the magnitude of the economic pain that Americans are facing, it's imperative to demand measures that will soften the blow.
Posted on Feb 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Those who follow the commercial media's coverage of Latin America can end up with less understanding than those who ignore it.
Posted on Jan 22, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Like Nixon said, "We're all Keynesians now."
Posted on Jan 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The "suitcase scandal" has alienated the new Argentine government and will only further sully Washington's reputation in Latin America.
Posted on Jan 3, 2008, Source: AlterNet
This will be the second recession since 2001 that was caused by the bursting of an obviously speculative asset bubble.
Posted on Dec 12, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Don't let the latest stock market rally fool you.
Posted on Nov 27, 2007, Source: AlterNet
When it comes to the commercial media's portrayal of Latin American politics, words like "democracy" and "dictatorship" have no meaning.
Posted on Nov 21, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Institutionally unwilling to consider America's responsibility for the bloodbath, the traditional media have refused to acknowledge the massive number of Iraqis killed since the invasion.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The right has created powerful and lasting myths about the state of the program's finances.
Posted on Nov 8, 2007, Source: AlterNet
An overvalued currency has been the source of many of our economic problems.
Posted on Oct 31, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The western media call it "Chavez Bank" -- but what are they really afraid of?
Posted on Oct 18, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The dirty secret is that income growth was stronger before the era of "globalization."
Posted on Oct 5, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Costa Rica's citizens will soon become the first to vote on a "free trade" agreement, and the corporatocracy is pulling out all the stops to see that they vote its way.
Posted on Jul 26, 2007, Source: The Guardian
In Latin America, a monopolized corporate media represent a much larger share of the news that people receive and are even more shamelessly manipulated for political purposes.
Posted on Mar 6, 2007, Source: McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
As President Bush heads south for a seven-day trip to counter the populist political tide in Latin America, he'll discover that Washington's influence has collapsed and is not likely to recover.
Posted on Dec 5, 2006, Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
The re-election of Hugo Chavez is the perfect opportunity for the Bush Administration to bury the hatchet with our fourth largest oil supplier and begin a policy of engagement with Venezuela.
Posted on Jan 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Bolvia's Evo Morales is the sixth presidential candidate in the last seven years to win an election while campaigning against economic neoliberalism.
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