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Thomas Friedman Again Demonstrates the Skills Shortage for NYT Pundits

April 24, 2013   ·   1 Comments

By Dean Baker: The NYT has difficulty finding pundits who can write knowledgeably about economics. Thomas Friedman made this point...

Warning: Wealth Comparisons by Age Group Through Time Are Bogus!

By Dean Baker: The NYT commits the common sin of making such comparisons in an otherwise useful piece on the economic plight of millennials. It tells us: “The average ...

The NY Times Calls Third Way “Center-Left” and Turns a Study on its Head

By William K. Black: Some lies will not die. As I have demonstrated repeatedly, Third Way is Wall Street on the Potomac.

Why Does No One Speak of America’s Oligarchs?

By Yves Smith: One of the striking elements of the demonization of Cyprus was how it was depicted as a willing tool of Russian money launderers ...

The ‘Populists’ and the ‘Experts’

By Costas Panayotakis The reporting by the New York Times of the recent election in Italy suggests, yet again, that confusion regarding the European crisis continues ...

Steven Davidoff Doesn’t Consider the Successful 300 Years of Financial Transactions Taxes In London

By Dean Baker: Steven Davidoff really doesn’t like financial transactions taxes (FTT) but is not honest enough to acknowledge this fact. Instead he tells readers that proponents of ...

Tom Friedman’s Apple Hunch

By Peter Hart: New York Times columnist Tom Friedman is, for reasons that remain entirely unclear, considered a wise man in elite media circles. His columns and books are ...

NYT Finds Economists Without Names to Criticize Japan’s Plans for Stimulus and Promote “Free-Trade” Agreement

By Dean Baker: Most economists have names, but the NYT managed to find some without names to give critical comments on the stimulus plans of Japan’s ...

To Educate a Cab Driver, Educate Thomas Friedman Campaign

By Dean Baker: Thomas Friedman is once again mass marketing misinformation on economics, something that he does all too frequently. Just about everything in the piece is ...

Why Does the NYT Abandon Journalistic Standards to Promote the Obama Administration’s Trade Agenda?

By Dean Baker: That’s what readers of this NYT piece hyping a European-U.S. trade agreement should be asking. It begins by telling readers: “President Obama’s call for a free-trade ...

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