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The pharmaceutical industry will fight like crazy to block any efforts to modernize the system of financing drug research
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 state of Colorado paid over $1 billion to investment managers over an eight-year period to lose the state money
If CEOs were again paid 20 to 30 times the wages of ordinary workers, instead of the current 200 to 300 times, it would have an impact on pay structures throughout the economy
Clearly, policy must focus more heavily on incomes before taxes and transfers if the majority is to share equitably in economic growth
It would be ideal if we could count on government agencies to regulate industry rather than be ripped-off by it
Ten million or 20 million people with well-paying jobs with health insurance? Sure, great. But could the government manage it? And what of the private sector?
Economic policy will continue to suffer as long as the loudest voices in the debate have no understanding of how the economy works
If the Debt Mongers Were Serious
There is no honest way to discuss the burden of the debt without also talking about the burdens created by these government-granted monopolies
Last month New York State included measures in its budget bill that will allow people in the state to get around the new tax law’s limit on the deductibility of state and local taxes.