Emma Curchin

2 weeks ago | cepr.net | Data Bytes |Emma Curchin |Dean Baker |Matt Sedlar

In a recent CNBC interview, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said the people who lose Medicaid coverage under the Republican-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will merely transition to employer-sponsored health care: “It’s not kicking people off Medicaid. It’s transitioning from Medicaid to employer-provided health care.

3 weeks ago | cepr.net | Data Bytes |Dean Baker |Julie Yixia Cai |Emma Curchin

Since “abundance” is apparently the in-thing, I thought I should get in on the act. At the onset, I will admit I don’t have much new to offer to those familiar with my writings, but sometimes a repackaging is useful. I have my usual favorites:Patent and copyright monopolies,The bloated financial sector,The corrupt corporate governance structure,Protection for doctors and other highly paid professionals.

Mar 14, 2025 | cepr.net | Data Bytes |Dean Baker |Peter Hart |Emma Curchin

When Elon Musk and his DOGE boys were raiding the Social Security Administration (SSA) and coming up with their nutty fantasies about millions of dead people getting Social Security, they apparently didn’t bother to spend any time looking at actual data about the program. If they had, they might have gotten a bit of understanding about not only the program, but also the labor market and immigration.

Mar 10, 2025 | cepr.net | Data Bytes |Dean Baker |Emma Curchin

Past recessions have been the result of policy errors or disasters. The most typical policy error is when the Federal Reserve Board raises interest rates too much to counter inflation. That was clearly the story in the 1974-75 recession as well as the 1980-82 double-dip recession. Then we have recessions caused by collapsing financial bubbles, the 2001 recession following the collapse of the stock bubble and the 2008-09 recession following the collapse of the housing bubble.

Mar 6, 2025 | cepr.net | Data Bytes |Dean Baker |Brandon Novick |Emma Curchin

Elon Musk has been having a good time the last month and a half going cracking down on funding for life-saving drugs for people suffering from AIDS and blocking shipments of food to starving kids in Africa. He also thinks he’s really tough because he can fire park rangers getting $40,000 a year. But for some reason, Elon’s chainsaw doesn’t seem to work very well when it might affect the money going to rich people.