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Znet Article Weisbrot: The Chavez Administration at 10 Years: The Economy and Social Indicators

Znet Article, February, 08 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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This paper looks at some of the most important economic and social indicators during the 10 years of the Chávez administration in Venezuela, as well as the current economic expansion. It also looks at the current situation and challenges.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Obama Has Opportunity to Reverse Mistake on Offshore Drilling

Znet Article, January, 27 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Campaigning in Florida last June as a presidential candidate, then-Senator Barack Obama blasted the proposal of his opponent, Senator John McCain, to open coastal areas of the United States to offshore drilling. Declaring that it "makes no sense a...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Stimulus Time: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Znet Article, January, 05 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Nobody needs to be told that our economy is going down the tubes at a rate unseen for decades. Every week brings new numbers that are setting records. In just the three months ending in November the job loss was 1.26 million, the worst since 1975...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Obama Should Make A Clean Break With the Past on Latin America

Znet Article, December, 02 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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President-elect Obama's historic triumph was welcomed in Latin America by left-of-center governments who saw it as a continuation of their own electoral victories. Even before the election President Lula da Silva of Brazil said: "Just as Brazil el...

Znet Article Weisbrot: South America: Recession Can Be Avoided

Znet Article, November, 17 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Can South America escape the wrath of the economic and financial storms that have their epicenter in the United States? Since the financial meltdown began in mid-September, the bond markets of most of the region (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Venez...

Znet Article Weisbrot: After Four Decades, Finally: The Beginning of the End

Znet Article, November, 05 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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The nation's capital came alive after 11 p.m. on election eve, as thousands poured into the streets to celebrate a victory that everyone was calling historic. Car horns blaring, whooping and shouting, high fives all around, multi-racial crowds cel...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Why Obama Has Pulled Ahead on the Economic Issues

Znet Article, October, 25 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Senator Barack Obama's campaign for the White House pulled ahead of his opponent, Senator John McCain, as soon as the current financial crisis hit the headlines. As one of McCain's top strategists recently blurted out, "If we keep talking about th...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Wall Street Bailout Won't Do Much to Help Ailing Economy

Znet Article, October, 10 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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It is now clear the approval by Congress of President Bush's $700 bailout package on Friday October 3rd has done nothing to ease the current financial crisis. Credit markets have worsened for several days after the bill passed the Congress. The st...

Znet Article Baker: Statement on the Need for Coordinated Stimulus

Znet Article, October, 10 2008 Dean Baker
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The current economic crisis is the result of an extraordinary period of extreme economic mismanagement. The world's central banks, most importantly the Federal Reserve Board in the United States, made the decision to ignore, if not actively cultiv...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The United States and the World

Znet Article, October, 01 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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The United States appears to be embarking on a transition on two major fronts: its own economy, both financial and real; and its relations with the rest of the world. There is some relation between these two transitions. Some of these changes will...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Time to Take a Second Look at Our "Free Trade" Agreements

Znet Article, September, 22 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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"Battle in Seattle" opens September 19-26 in movie theaters across the country, a rare combination of high drama and history-making events as they actually happened when thousands of protesters shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle nea...

Znet Article Weisbrot: "Revolt of the Rich"

Znet Article, September, 17 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Newsweek's Michael Miller recently interviewed CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot regarding the situation in Bolivia, where violence by right-wing groups, in conjunction with opposition prefects and politicians, claimed the lives of dozens of people a...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Employee Free Choice Act Could Be Biggest Reform Since New Deal

Znet Article, September, 01 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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While it hasn't gotten much attention, one of the most important issues that our elections this November could decide is the future of organized labor in the United States. This is important not just for the 15.7 million workers who happen to be i...

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S.-Russian Relations: Current Tensions Reflect Past Foreign Policy Failures

Znet Article, August, 30 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Tensions between the United States and Russia have a long history, but one only need go back to the early nineties to see how our own government threw away its chance to have a better relationship with post-Communist Russia after the collapse of t...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Should Obama, If Elected, Make a Clean Break With Bush's Latin America Policy?

Znet Article, August, 19 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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In the last decade political change has swept across most of Latin America. Much of the region - including the majority of South America - is now run by left governments. These governments have also become much more independent of the United State...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bolivia: Can The Majority of People Vote for Change and Actually Get It?

Znet Article, August, 15 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Evo Morales changed the history of Bolivia when he was elected in December 2005 as the country's first indigenous president, and the first to get a majority of 54 percent. On Sunday he expanded his mandate considerably in a referendum, with 68 per...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Offshore Drilling Won't Help But "Green Stimulus" Can

Znet Article, July, 31 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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"Gas prices - $4, $5, no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America," says the narrator in the TV ad that Republican presidential candidate John McCain played last week...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Internet Purchases Shouldn't Be Subsidized

Znet Article, June, 16 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Can our state and local governments afford to subsidize businesses that conduct their sales only on the internet, rather than through physical retail stores? And if we could, is there a good reason to do so?

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S. Economy: The Worst is Yet to Come

Znet Article, May, 28 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Since the U.S. economy showed positive growth for the last quarter, some commentators in the business press are saying that we are not necessarily going to have a recession, or that if there is one it will be mild. This is a bit like the proverbia...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The IMF’s Dwindling Fortunes

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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“The IMF is back,” declared the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at its annual spring meeting earlier this month in Washington. And not a moment too soon either. To hear the organization’s economists tell it...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Who's Afraid of a Falling Dollar?

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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What do policy-makers in China, Japan, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, the European Union and many other countries understand that ours don't? It seems they know that if the value of their currencies rises too much, it can hurt their economy. But ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bat Boy Lives - As Do Myths About Social Security

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Despite the defeat of President Bush's attempt to partially privatize Social Security, the mass misunderstanding of America's largest and most successful anti-poverty program persists. This was evident on Sunday's Meet the Press with Tim Russert, ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Holocaust Denial, American Style

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Iranian President Ahmedinejad's flirtation with those who deny the reality of the Nazi genocide has rightly been met with disgust. But another holocaust denial is taking place with little notice: the holocaust in Iraq. The average American believe...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuela's Still a Democracy

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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On 2 December Venezuelans will vote on a number of amendments to their constitution. Generally speaking the proposals have been portrayed in the media as the next step on the road to dictatorship.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bush Administration, More Isolated in Latin America, Cries "Terrorism"

Znet Article, April, 11 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Of all the nonsense that we hear regularly about Venezuela, the idea that the country is a "security threat" is probably the most ridiculous. For six years now, since the Bush Administration supported a failed coup attempt against the democratical...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The Audacity of Populism: What Obama Needs to Do

Znet Article, April, 09 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Eighty-one percent of Americans now agree that "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track," the most since this question has been asked and a remarkable preponderance of pessimism by any comparison.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Media Needs to Take More Responsibility With Regard to False Information

Znet Article, March, 12 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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How the media treats repeated falsehoods is a key issue...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Is Washington Undermining Democracy in Bolivia?

Znet Article, February, 19 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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This week's news that the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia has repeatedly asked Peace Corps volunteers and then a Fulbright Scholar to spy on people there is much more serious that it has so far been treated. In fact, together with other activities funded ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Proposed Stimulus Package is Not Enough

Znet Article, February, 05 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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As the economy shifts into reverse gear and the Congress and President work out the details of a proposed fiscal stimulus, some are asking whether it will be enough to keep the economy out of a recession. The answer is very likely no.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Latin America News Coverage

Znet Article, February, 01 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Barack Obama had a few choice words for Bill and Hillary Clinton after the South Carolina primary, about people who would "say anything and do anything to win an election."

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