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.
The bailout's supporters said Congress had to do something to unfreeze the credit markets. It didn't work.
Posted on Oct 10, 2008
Trade is not an end in itself -- the goal is to improve people's living standards.
Posted on Sep 30, 2008
This legislation would give employees a fighting chance to regain some of their lost rights.
Posted on Sep 16, 2008
A wealthy minority in Bolivia seems determined to thwart the changes demanded by a majority of the population.
Posted on Aug 27, 2008
A "green stimulus" package would give the economy a lift while simultaneously reducing energy consumption.
Posted on Aug 1, 2008
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 22, 2008
The Senator appears clueless on a number of crucial policy areas.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008
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 24, 2008
Political chasm between Washington and Latin America continues to deepen, as Chavez rejects FARC's armed campaign.
Posted on Jun 11, 2008
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 29, 2008
Thanks to disasters of its own making, the agency is losing money and influence.
Posted on May 1, 2008
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 Apr 7, 2008
Big Pharma is up in arms about developing countries importing less expensive generic versions of their drugs.
Posted on Mar 25, 2008
The mass media has become one of the most important obstacles to social and economic progress in the 21st century.
Posted on Mar 12, 2008
The corporate-owned media play a large, often unnoticed role in U.S. national politics.
Posted on Feb 27, 2008
Bolivian officials say Washington is trying to destabilize and even topple their democratic government.
Posted on Feb 16, 2008
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 6, 2008
Those who follow the commercial media's coverage of Latin America can end up with less understanding than those who ignore it.
Posted on Feb 1, 2008
Like Nixon said, "We're all Keynesians now."
Posted on Jan 22, 2008
The "suitcase scandal" has alienated the new Argentine government and will only further sully Washington's reputation in Latin America.
Posted on Jan 10, 2008
This will be the second recession since 2001 that was caused by the bursting of an obviously speculative asset bubble.
Posted on Jan 3, 2008
Don't let the latest stock market rally fool you.
Posted on Dec 12, 2007
When it comes to the commercial media's portrayal of Latin American politics, words like "democracy" and "dictatorship" have no meaning.
Posted on Nov 27, 2007
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 21, 2007
The right has created powerful and lasting myths about the state of the program's finances.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007
An overvalued currency has been the source of many of our economic problems.
Posted on Nov 8, 2007
The western media call it "Chavez Bank" -- but what are they really afraid of?
Posted on Oct 31, 2007
The dirty secret is that income growth was stronger before the era of "globalization."
Posted on Oct 18, 2007
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 Oct 5, 2007
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 Jul 26, 2007
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 Mar 6, 2007
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 Dec 5, 2006
Bolvia's Evo Morales is the sixth presidential candidate in the last seven years to win an election while campaigning against economic neoliberalism.
Posted on Jan 21, 2006
Bush's privatization plan for Social Security is a case where it helps to read the fine print.
Posted on Feb 19, 2005
Bush is using fuzzy math to claim that in 13 years Social Security will be paying out more than it takes in.
Posted on Feb 4, 2005
Bush's 'ownership society' means that someone is going to have to pay the taxes that rich people are no longer paying. And that someone is low-wage workers.
Posted on Sep 22, 2004
This Labor Day, most U.S. workers are worse off than they were at this time last year.
Posted on Sep 6, 2004
Establishment types are trumpeting America's role as global police force. Too bad the U.S. just can't afford the job.
Posted on Aug 2, 2004
In the past, the Fed has choked off growth and even triggered recessions in order to fight inflation increases. Is Alan Greenspan's conspicuous lack of concern about inflation all about election-year politics?
Posted on Mar 24, 2004
Unions, the folks that brought us the weekend, are fighting for their basic right to exist.
Posted on Dec 9, 2003
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