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.
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
Republicans say there's an economic recovery -- but for most people, it still feels like a recession.
Posted on Dec 4, 2003
While American labor has continued producing more goods and services, the vast majority of employees have barely shared at all in the fruits of their increasing productivity.
Posted on Aug 28, 2003
The president's rhetoric hides the ugly fact that the U.S. is actually doing more to hurt Africa than help it.
Posted on Jul 11, 2003
With the Democrats toeing the Bush administration line at home, European nations like France and Germany are the last best hope for peace.
Posted on Feb 11, 2003
Economists are laughing at Bush's "economic stimulus" package -- but then again, this tax cut isn't really meant to help the economy any more than the last one was.
Posted on Jan 8, 2003
If history is any guide, overt funding from Washington will turn out to be the tip of the iceberg--as it was in Haiti, Nicaragua and Chile.
Posted on Dec 18, 2002
The new Homeland Security Bill is a lavish gift-wrapped present to corporations and special interests.
Posted on Nov 21, 2002
Having succeeded in using Iraq to win the elections, the Bush administration is moving on to phase two of their master plan: making war inevitable.
Posted on Nov 18, 2002
With the pharmaceutical monopoly spinning out of control while more and more people do without life-saving medication, why not make pharmaceutical research and production a public sector activity?
Posted on Oct 31, 2002
As the debate over war on Iraq rages on, the facts on who it affects -- economically as well as socially -- are being overlooked.
Posted on Sep 12, 2002
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