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Donald Trump provides no shortage of grounds for criticism, but the NYT is really grasping at straws in it editorial headlined, “clouds darken Trump’s sunny economic view”
Dean Baker
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.
Dean previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the OECD's Trade Union Advisory Council.
The U.S. doesn’t seem likely to win Trump’s trade war, and consumers are quite likely to lose
If Mr. Stoltenberg and his colleagues don’t want to be in the business of kowtowing to Trumpian buffoons, they should start thinking about policies that ensure the benefits of growth are broadly shared
It’s clear that many in the media are terrified by the prospect that as the labor market gets tighter, workers might get a larger share of the pie
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Our trade policy over the last four decades has been quite explicitly designed to redistribute income upward. This was the point of deals like NAFTA, or admitting China to the WTO
The key to lowering CEO pay is to change the incentives for directors
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Robert Samuelson and his deficit hawk friends cut workers’ before-tax income by 10 percent with their push for austerity, which helped to put a check on effective stimulus
We can do better than extending a relic of the feudal guild system