Mark Weisbrot
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Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is author of the book Failed: What the “Experts” Got Wrong About the Global Economy (Oxford University Press), co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy.
He writes a regular column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by the Tribune Content Agency. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and almost every major US newspaper, as well as in Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs.
weisbrot [at] cepr.net
Ecuador Votes Sunday Amid Corruption Scandals, Surging Violence and Eroding Rule of Law
Miami Herald, April 11, 2025; by Greg Grandin and Mark Weisbrot
A No-Brainer for Global Growth and US Jobs
Project Syndicate, January 10, 2025; by Joseph Stiglitz and Mark Weisbrot
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Distraction That Can Continue for a While
The Guardian, December 11, 2024
Disaffected Voters May Want to Consider What Decades of Minority Rule Could Bring
Common Dreams, November 7, 2024
Mark Weisbrot’s Remarks from CEPR’s Webinar on Ending IMF Surcharge Policy
CEPR, September 12, 2024
Why Is the “Pro-Family” GOP Blocking Legislation that Would Help Lift Many Kids Out of Poverty?
Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2024; by Justin Talbot Zorn and Mark Weisbrot
Issues for the Voters in November’s Election: The US Economy, and the Fate of Minority Rule
Orlando Sentinel, July 15, 2024
Julian Assange Did the Time, but Who Did the Crime?
The American Prospect, July 5, 2024
Why Is Chuck Schumer Refusing a Vote on the Child Tax Credit?
The Hill, June 25, 2024; by Justin Talbot Zorn and Mark Weisbrot
Trump’s Republican Party Is Still the Republican Party: You Should Worry About Your Social Security and Medicare
The Sacramento Bee, March 11, 2024
A Widening War in the Middle East Could Alter US Election Results
Miami Herald, January 29, 2024
Why Biden Can’t Afford to Expand the War
Time, January 29, 2024
The International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights: Why a New Issuance is Necessary and Feasible at this Time, and Would Save Many Lives
January 10, 2024
In Memory of Robert Solow
December 26, 2023
What the OAS Did to Bolivia
The Guardian, September 18, 2020
The World Economy Needs a Stimulus: IMF Special Drawing Rights Are Critical to Containing the Pandemic and Boosting the World Economy
June 22, 2020; by Alexander Main, Mark Weisbrot, and Didier Jacobs • PDF
"Headwinds to Growth": The IMF Program in Ecuador
July 2019; by Mark Weisbrot and Andrés Arauz • PDF
Who Is to Blame for Argentina’s Economic Crisis?
The New York Times, August 19, 2019
Bolivia’s Economic Transformation: Macroeconomic Policies, Institutional Changes and Results
October 2019; by Andrés Arauz, Mark Weisbrot, Andrew Bunker and Jake Johnston • PDF
Brazil’s Democracy Pushed Into the Abyss
The New York Times, January 23, 2018
How Congress Can End the War in Yemen
The New York Review of Books, September 14, 2018
Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela
Apr 2019; by Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs • PDF
Labor Has Lost Much in Past Four Decades, and Fed Threatens Recent Gains
Los Angeles Times, and 19 others, August 31, 2018
Puerto Rico’s Botched Disaster Relief, Unsustainable Debt, and Economic Failure Linked to its Colonial Status
Los Angeles Times, and 7 others, May 30, 2019
The Transatlantic Alliance Will Survive Trump
The Nation, and 3 others, August 27, 2018
The Pact for Mexico After Five Years: How Has It Fared?
June 2018; by Mark Weisbrot, Lara Merling, Rebecca Watts, and Jake Johnston • PDF
Puerto Rico Needs Economic Recovery First, Not “Structural Reforms” and Debt Service Extraction
Testimony of Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to bipartisan group hosted by Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez; March 20, 2018
The Threats, Real and Imagined, of Mexico’s Election
The New York Review of Books, and 1 other, March 9, 2018