The Washington Post has consistently ranked among the nation's most shrill voices when it comes to warning us about the coming catastrophe associated with the retirement of the baby boom generation. It routinely editorializes that this will break the budget, requiring massive tax increases or huge cuts in spending in areas not related to retirement programs. …
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Beat The Press is Dean Baker's commentary on economic reporting. Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He is a frequent guest on National Public Radio, Marketplace, CNN, CNBC and other news programs.
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Sense at the Washington Post on Social Security
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Cancer Drugs Are Cheap, Government Patent Monopolies Make Them Expensive
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=07&year=2008&base_name=cancer_drugs_are_cheap_governmThe NYT seems to have zero understanding of the economics of prescription drugs. An interesting and lengthy article on a new generation of very high-priced cancer drugs (often costing more than $100,000 a year) never once mentions the fact that the drugs are expensive solely because the government grants the manufacturer a patent monopoly that protects them from market competition. …
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The Shortage of Low-Paid Journalists
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=07&year=2008&base_name=the_shortage_of_lowpaid_journaThere are not enough well-qualified journalists willing to work for $8 an hour. We know this because there are very few (if any) experienced journalists working for this wage. The New York Times and other newspapers deal with this shortage by paying journalists considerably more than $8 an hour. …
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The Media Campaign To Blame The Poor For The Housing Crisis
http://inclusionist.org/node/1693of the housing mortgage crisis gives me a headache. It's difficult to make sense of what's actually happening. But without a doubt there's one clear causal factor emerging from the media fog: subprime mortgages. A quick scroll through Dean Baker's blog shows just how often the media pins the crisis on subprime loans. Yet Baker, who was one of the few economists who saw all this coming, makes it clear that the subprime mortgages are just a chapter in a larger story about how housing prices got so out
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Androcass
http://androcass.blogspot.comso it's time for some clean-up. I haven't added anything to my "Other places of interest" in a while, not because I only look at the few that are there, but out of laziness to write this post and actually add the places. So it's time I did that. Beat The Press is economist Dean Baker's "commentary on economic reporting." His dissatisfaction with the popular press on matters economic exceeds my own; his comments on their credulity are sharp and to the point. You can argue with some of what he says, but he is
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EOM cleaning
http://androcass.blogspot.com/2008/06/eom-cleaning.htmlso it's time for some clean-up. I haven't added anything to my "Other places of interest" in a while, not because I only look at the few that are there, but out of laziness to write this post and actually add the places. So it's time I did that. Beat The Press
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Organizing Grievances
http://organizinggrievances.blogspot.comFirst Read Dean Baker's Beat the Press Coffee Black, Cigarette North Country Girl Tustfoos Venezuela Analysis Bolivia Rising Built On a Weak Spot Hardcore For Nerds Zen and the Art of FacePunching Can't Stop the Bleeding Bugs and Cranks Calculated Risk
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USA:s mest kostnadseffektiva tankesmedja...
http://vansterekonomi.blogspot.com/2008/06/usas-mest-kostnad.... Arbetet handlar främst om samhällsekonomi, klyftor och socialpolitik, men även om migration, utrikes- och inrikespolitik, krig och fred, och andra ämnen som intresserar "progressiva" USA-bor. Dessutom har de Dean Bakers Beat the Press - en blogg som belyser felaktigheter i, och kommenterar, ekonominyheter i landets största tidningar. Anledningen till att jag gillar CEPR: de är pigga, snabba, aktuella, pålästa och uttrycker sig lättbegripligt - och de blandar sig aldrig (eller
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Econofoodie
http://econofoodie.blogspot.comChloe Boleyn Palmer: Systems of Detachment Community Food Security Coalition Dean Baker: Beat The Press Democratic Underground Economists for Obama Farm to City Foreign Policy in Focus Institute for Responsible Technology Juan Cole's Informed Comment Marginal Revolution openDemocracy RGE- Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor
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The Big 3: What can we do?
http://androcass.blogspot.com/2008/06/big-3-what-can-we-do.h...Not to get all Dean Baker here, but don't major newspapers have some responsibility to write articles with truth instead of carefully-worded pap that distorts the truth in some pretense of "journalism"? I refer to a story in the Chicago Tribune about the problems being
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WaPo Con Watch
http://wapoconwatch.wordpress.comBlogroll Beat the Press Brad Delong’s Semi-Daily Journal
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bomfog\'s notebook
http://bomfog.blogspot.comBaker, Dean [Economics] Greenwald, Glenn [Politics]
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DRILLING FOR OIL: WHAT BENEFIT?
http://prorev.com/2008/06/drilling-for-oil-what-benefit.htmlDEAN BAKER, PROSPECT Let's see, John McCain wants to drill offshore to increase oil supply and lower gas prices. Barack Obama says he wants to protect the environment and maintain the ban on such drilling. What is a voter to do?
