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...
By Dean Baker: The New York Times ran a front page piece warning readers that the cost of treating dementia is “soaring.” The piece tells readers of the ...
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 ...
By Dean Baker: In this century Mexico has had the slowest per capita GDP growth of any country in Latin America. It has made almost no progress in ...
By Dean Baker: It is really easy and apparently fun for some people to use scary numbers about health care costs. The trick is to take ...
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 ...
By Dean Baker: A NYT piece reported on concerns by the French government and others over the rising value of the euro. They were concerned that a higher ...
By Dean Baker: The NYT is still pushing the line that, “uncertainty over fiscal policy and the fragility of the economy still seem to be holding back employers.” ...
By Dean Baker: That’s a cheap shot derived from the information that the NYT gave us at the end of Thomas Friedman’s column: “Maureen Dowd is off ...
By Dean Baker: The NYT tells us that biotech firms want the government to prohibit pharmacists from giving patients generic substitutes for biological drugs. This is a great ...
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