Dean Baker

When patents can be worth enormous sums of money, companies will find ways to abuse the system.

The Fed's high interest rate approach to stemming inflation is about reducing the bargaining power of workers, and especially workers at the lower end of the wage ladder.

The best way to limit the power of a Mark Zuckerberg to shape our political debates and influence elections is to downsize Facebook. Restructuring the protection provided by Section 230 can be a way to accomplish this goal.

In many of the areas seeing the sharpest price increases, the inflation is clearly due to factors associated with the pandemic and the reopening of the economy which are not likely to persist long into the future.

The frivolous use of large amounts of resources by the very rich is a problem for the economy and society.

For those of us who think that all workers should be able to get decent pay, have decent working conditions, and be treated with respect on the job, the idea that large numbers of workers now feel they can quit jobs they don’t like is really great news.

We should be looking to share technology as widely as possible, not locking it up behind patent monopolies and other protections.

Not only did the federal minimum wage not keep pace with productivity growth, it did not even keep pace with inflation.