Mark Weisbrot
Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), in Washington, DC. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy. His latest book is "Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy" (2015). He is author of co-author, with Dean Baker, of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (2001). E-mail Mark: weisbrot@cepr.net
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Views Tuesday, January 05, 2021 Why Partisanship Will Increase in the Post-Trump Era Many are hoping that when Donald Trump—one of the most divisive U.S. presidents in the past century or more—leaves office, the historically elevated levels of partisanship in U.S. politics will at least begin to subside. But the opposite is vastly more likely. There are short- and intermediate-run... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 23, 2020 From Trump to Bolivia and Back: A Tale of Two Coups This article was distributed by the Independent Media Institute, and published by Raw Story and AlterNet on December 21, 2020. In recent weeks, Donald Trump has been ridiculed, slathered with contempt, and repeatedly branded a “liar,” as well as an existential threat to democracy in the United... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 05, 2020 If You Could Save a Million Lives, Would You Do It? If you had the opportunity to save a million people from preventable death, would you do it? People who would otherwise fall victim to the global pandemic and deep recession that most of the world is experiencing. This is not merely a rhetorical question, but one that members of the Congress will... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 18, 2020 Silence Reigns on the US-Backed Coup Against Evo Morales in Bolivia Bolivia has descended into a nightmare of political repression and racist state violence since the democratically elected government of Evo Morales was overthrown by the military on November 10th last year. That month was the second-deadliest in terms of civilian deaths caused by state forces since... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 19, 2020 Trump Stimulus Plan: Still Getting Everything Wrong Donald Trump has consistently been failing the country in dealing with the coronavirus. Due to Trump’s failed public health response, even Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin acknowledges that we are facing the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. This is in addition to the prospect of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Radical—He’s a Pragmatist Who Fights to Un-rig the System As Bernie Sanders continues to increase his standing in the Democratic primary, and his opponents in both parties feel the pain, there is an effort to paint him as an extremist of some sort. Someone who might even lose to Trump because of this alleged “radicalism.” But it’s not that easy to make... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 06, 2020 What Does the Future Hold for US-Bolivia Ties? The Trump administration’s current and future behavior in Bolivia can best be forecast by its strong support for the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Evo Morales on November 10. And no one disputes that Morales was democratically elected to his term that began... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 19, 2019 The OAS Lied to the Public About the Bolivian Election and Coup What is the difference between an outright lie—stating something as a fact while knowing that it is false—and a deliberate material representation that accomplishes the same end? Here is an example that really pushes the boundary between the two, to the point where the distinction practically... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 07, 2019 Tariffs Are a Bad Response to an Imaginary Border Crisis Donald Trump won the presidency–despite losing the popular vote by 2.8 million—with a campaign that careened wildly from one distraction to another. He has clung to this as a Twitter and governing strategy ever since. As there are 190 countries in the world, and the United States trades with most... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 01, 2019 Puerto Rico’s Botched Disaster Relief, Unsustainable Debt, and Economic Failure Linked to its Colonial Status Here is a scandal: Puerto Rico has a Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), created by the US Congress and appointed by the president of the United States, in charge of its finances. Its budget, financed by Puerto Rico's taxpayers, is $1.5 billion over five years, or $300 million a year... Read more |