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Weisbrot: Inter-American Press Association Shouldn't Pursue Partisan Agenda in Venezuela

Znet Article, January, 09 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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A January 2 article in Editor and Publisher gives the impression that the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) is defending freedom of expression in Venezuela.

Weisbrot: A Lesson From the Last, and Next, Recession

Znet Article, January, 03 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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In the baseball-and-sex classic Bull Durham Susan Sarandon accidentally calls out the wrong name in the heat of passion and makes a remarkably quick recovery. She asks her partner which he would rather have, her having sex with him and saying the ...

Weisbrot: Housing Crash Still Weighs on the Economy

Znet Article, December, 15 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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If you are like most Americans, you are probably wondering what the hell is going on with the economy. Good question. Since July, when the credit crunch hit, caused by the all those suddenly not-so-good mortgage-backed securities - often referred ...

Weisbrot: A Bank of Their Own: Latin America Casting Off Washington's Shackles

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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That was Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil -- not Washington's nemesis, Hugo Chavez -- speaking in the Republic of Congo just two weeks ago. Although our foreign policy establishment remains in cozy denial about it, the recognition that Washi...

Weisbrot: Argentina Elects Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner: It's the Economy

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became the first woman elected to the presidency of Argentina on Sunday. Her victory is not difficult to explain. Her political party, under President Nestor Kirchner (her husband), led a dramatic economic turnaround...

Weisbrot: Venezuela is Not Florida

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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No one should have been surprised by Chavez's immediate concession: Venezuela is a constitutional democracy, and its government has stuck to the democratic rules of the game since he was first elected in 1998. Despite the non-renewal of the broadc...

Weisbrot: Progressive Change in Venezuela and Latin America

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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The defeat of the Venezuelan government's proposed constitutional reforms last Sunday will probably not change very much in Venezuela. Most of what...

Weisbrot: IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy

Znet Article, October, 19 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Finance ministers, bankers, and businessmen will gather in Washington DC this week for the annual Fall Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. As is customary, the IMF is publishing its analysis of the world economy, and this y...

Weisbrot: IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy

Znet Article, October, 19 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Finance ministers, bankers, and businessmen will gather in Washington DC this week for the annual Fall Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. As is customary, the IMF is publishing its analysis of the world economy, and this

Weisbrot: IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy

Znet Article, October, 19 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy

Baker: Social Security: The Phony Crisis

Book, October, 12 2007

By Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot

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Weisbrot: Why the "Free Trade" Agenda is Losing Steam

Znet Article, October, 10 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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The 2006 Congressional elections were a turning point for U.S. trade policy. One issue that helped Democrats retake the Congress was a renewed sense of distrust among the electorate of our government's trade policy, which is commonly mislabeled as...

Weisbrot: Needed for Labor Day: Something to Celebrate

Znet Article, September, 05 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Another Labor Day is here and American workers are still waiting for something to celebrate. How about a wage increase? Well, the average real wage today is just where it was nearly five years ago, in December 2002, despite the fact that our econo...

Weisbrot: Eyes Wide Shut: The International Media Looks at Venezuela

Znet Article, August, 14 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Most consumers of the international media will be surprised to find that the controversy over Venezuela's oldest TV station, RCTV, is still raging. We were rep...

Weisbrot: Media-Generated "Scandal" Undermines Democracy in Ecuador

Znet Article, July, 28 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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In his recent book, The Assault on Reason, former Vice-President Al Gore describes how "the potential for manipulating mass opinions and feelings initially discovered by commercial advertisers is now being even more aggressively exploited by a new...