Austerity Advocates Have Been Wrong About Everything
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), May 30, 2013
The Only Real Problem Is Political
Dean Baker
Room for Debate (The New York Times), May 29, 2013
Return of the Housing Bubble?
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), May 29, 2013
Excel Spreadsheet Error, Ha Ha! Lessons from the Reinhart-Rogoff Controversy
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 27, 2013
Taxing Vacant Property: A Route to Internal Devaluation
Dean Baker
Project Syndicate, May 13, 2013
Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 15, 2013
Destroying the Lair of the Budget-Balancing Cretins
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, May 13, 2013
Congress Should Put Down the Gun: End the Debt Ceiling
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), May 10, 2013
Moody’s Get Faddish on Public Pensions
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 7, 2013
Debt Derangement
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 6, 2013
The Post Reinhart-Rogoff World: Fiscal Policy Without Fear
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 7, 2013
Logic Deficit: Why Were Reinhart-Rogoff Ever Taken Seriously?
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 30, 2013
Obama's Slow-Motion Sequester Laid Basis for Sped-Up Version
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 29, 2013
Political Corruption and the "Free Trade" Racket
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, April 29, 2013
Crashing the 90 Percent Club: The Importance of the Reinhart-Rogoff Error
Dean Baker
Caixin Online, April 23, 2013
Deficits are Bad and the Sun Goes Around the Earth
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 22, 2013
Did a Spreadsheet Error Cost You Your Job?
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), April 17, 2013
Corporate Governance and CEO Pay: The Cesspool at the Top
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 17, 2013
Will Social Security Be Unchained? Attacking the Serious People
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, April 15, 2013
Obama Accepts the Agenda of Misguided Washington Elites
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), April 11, 2013
Indian Drug Ruling Strikes a Blow for Free Enterprise
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 8, 2013
March Jobs Report Will End Talk of an Accelerating Recovery
Dean Baker
Politix, April 5, 2013
The Attack on Social Security and Disability: Profiting From Mistakes
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), April 4, 2013
Profit Shares Hit New Highs, Washington Focuses on Disability
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 1, 2013
Reducing Unemployment: Lessons from Germany
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, April 1, 2013
The London Whale, Cyprus and Washington
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 25, 2013
Senate Unanimously Votes Against Cuts to Social Security: Media Don’t Notice
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 25, 2013
Worms, Pond Scum and Economists
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 18, 2013
Economists and Future Living Standards
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 18, 2013
Big Bank Immunity: When Do We Crack Down on Wall Street?
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 11, 2013
Use Antitrust Policy to Break Up Mammoth Banks
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), March 8, 2013
Is the American Jobs Machine Coming Back?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 8, 2013
The Kids Will Be Rich, Unless Peter Peterson’s Kids Take Their Money
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 5, 2013
The Sequester Is President Obama’s Fault
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 4, 2013
The Story of Population Growth: Servants and Their Bosses
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 26, 2013
Macho Men, Social Security, and the Chained CPI
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 25, 2013
Fix the Debt's Fuzzy Math
Dean Baker
The Nation, February 20, 2013
We Need Job Creation, Not Talk of Debt-to-GDP Ratios
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), February 20, 2013
Debt-to-GDP Nonsense
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, February 18, 2013
Minimum Wage: Who Decided Workers Should Fall Behind?
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 18, 2013
Does Government Need to Do More?
Dean Baker
Room for Debate (The New York Times), February 11, 2013
Fix the Debt and a Wall Street Sales Tax
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, February 12, 2013
The Deficit: Why We Should Make It Grow
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 8, 2013
Tax Games and Redistributing Income Upward
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 4, 2013
Larry Summers and the Davos Scam
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, February 4, 2013
The Deficit Hawks: When Did They Stop Being Wrong About the Economy?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 28, 2013
Timothy Geithner Saved Wall Street, not the Economy
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 28, 2013
Aaron Swartz, Financial Fraud, and the Justice Department
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 21, 2013
Four More Years of 'It Could Have Been Worse'
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, January 22, 2013
Jack Lew: More of the Same at Treasury
Dean Baker
Caixin Online, January 17, 2013
The 3 Percent Cut to Social Security, aka the Chained CPI
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 14, 2013
Timothy Geithner: Modern Day Metternich
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 11, 2013
On Budget Cuts, the Political Gap Is Informational, Not Ideological
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), January 9, 2013
Paul Krugman for Treasury Secretary
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 8, 2013
Will Japan Lead the Path Away from the Fiscal Cliff?
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, January 7, 2013
Leave Social Security Alone; It’s Irrelevant to the Deficit
Dean Baker
Room for Debate (The New York Times), January 2, 2013
Look Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
Dean Baker
CNN, January 2, 2013
Prospects for 2013
Dean Baker
New Left Project, January 2, 2013
The Fiscal Cliff Deal: Who Got Thrown Off?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 1, 2013
Why are We Debating Cuts to Social Security?
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, December 26, 2012
There is No Santa Claus and Bill Clinton Was Not an Economic Savior
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 25, 2012
Free Trade in Medicare: An Alternative to Austerity
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 21, 2012
Antiquated Economic Policy Will Strangle Wealthy Country Growth in 2013
Dean Baker
Valor Econômico (Brazil), December 19, 2012
Em Português
Michigan Republicans Deny Police Officers and Firefighters the Right to Work
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 17, 2012
The Bowles and Simpson Traveling Circus
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), December 12, 2012
Profit Share Hits Record High, as Politicians are Distracted by Deficit Dispute
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, December 11, 2012
The Budget Thugs: What Do They Know About the Economy?
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 10, 2012
The Fiscal Cliff and Baby Killing Doctors
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 3, 2012
The Serious People Are on the War Path
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 3, 2012
Fighting Back Against the Eurozone Tyrants
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, November 28, 2012
Did Social Security and Medicare Crash the Economy?
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), November 26, 2012
If the Budget Debate Had a Nate Silver
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 26, 2012
The Shrill and the Serious
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 19, 2012
The Deficit Crisis Mongers Go Off the Deep End
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 16, 2012
After the Big Day, More of the Same
Dean Baker
Caixin Online, November 14, 2012
The Loss of Housing Wealth
Dean Baker
Boston Review, November 2012
Re-writing the History of the Housing Bubble and the Economic Crisis
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 12, 2012
The Crisis of the Deficit Crisis Mongers
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, November 12, 2012
Saving the Planet or 'Fixing' the Debt
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 8, 2012
Romney’s Global Warming Joke Should Haunt Him
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 5, 2012
The Campaign to Fix the Debt and the Hair Club for Men
Dean Baker
Salon, November 1, 2012
Inequality: The Silly Tales Economists Like to Tell
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, October 30, 2012
Is the Budget 'Crisis' History?
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 29, 2012
Is President Obama Opting to Lose the Election?
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), October 26, 2012
Obama's Biggest Failure
Dean Baker
Caixin Online, October 23, 2012
The Economics of Social Security in the Presidential Race
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 24, 2012
En Español
Clinton Criticizes Voters for Not Appreciating the Great Economy He’s Given Them
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 22, 2012
The Wrecking Society: Economics Today
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, October 15, 2012
The National Debt and Our Children: How Dumb Does Washington Think We Are?
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 15, 2012
Jack Welch Has No Clue About Jobs Numbers
Dean Baker
CNN Opinion, October 10, 2012
Social Security: President Obama’s Biggest Failure in Last Week’s Debate
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 8, 2012
Economic Policy Makers Do Not Know Which Way Is Up
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 8, 2012
Arithmetic Trumps Eurozone Politics
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 1, 2012
Cracking Down on China Means Cracking Down on Mitt Romney
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, October 1, 2012
Tax Policy Not the Root of U.S. Economic Problem
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), September 25, 2012
Romney, Ryan and the Cult of Entrepreneurship
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 24, 2012
Debt Worries: Economists Fail Arithmetic, Again
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 24, 2012
Economic Growth Isn’t About ‘Makers’ vs. ‘Takers’
Dean Baker
Yahoo! Finance, September 19, 2012
Does President Obama Want to Cut Social Security by 3 Percent?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 17, 2012
Chicago School Teachers Give Us All a Lesson
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, September 17, 2012
Deficit Reduction, Wall Street, and Whales
Dean Baker and Ted Boettner
The Charleston Gazette (WV), September 15, 2012
U.S.–China Trade in a Time of Economic Weakness
Dean Baker
China/U.S. Focus, September 14, 2012
The Erskine Bowles Stock Index and the S&P 500
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 10, 2012
Farewell To Bill
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 10, 2012
Prizes as Mechanism to Fund Innovation: We All Lose
Dean Baker
Eureka (The Times of London), September 6, 2012
Romney’s Success at Bain Capital: The Business as Scam Model
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 4, 2012
Canada Proves the Decline of Unions is Not Inevitable
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, September 3, 2012
Poverty: The New Growth Industry in America
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, August 29, 2012
En Español
Doctors Remove Bullet From Victim's Head, Seek to Determine Cause of Death
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, August 27, 2012
“Trans-Pacific Partnership” is Washington Speak for Corruption and Theft
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 27, 2012
Romney Pledges a Fed that Will Screw Workers
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 27, 2012
The $ 1.2 Trillion Health Care Tax
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, August 21, 2012
'Courage' In Washington Doesn’t Have the Same Meaning
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 20, 2012
Does Paul Ryan Know What’s in His Budget?
Dean Baker
Yahoo! Finance, August 17, 2012
Representative Ryan’s Far-Right Agenda: The Media Can’t Take the Truth
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 13, 2012
Will the Romney Campaign Lead Democrats to Adopt Better Economics?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 13, 2012
The Fed, Ben Bernanke, and the Rotten Libor
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, August 7, 2012
Tiny Tax Would Make a Big Difference
Dean Baker
The New York Times (Room for Debate), August 7, 2012
Beating Back the CEO Attack on Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 6, 2012
Scare Stories Over Higher Tax Rates Are Just Silly
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), July 31, 2012
Germany Is Scared to Throw Greece Out of the Euro
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 30, 2012
The CEO Plan to Steal Your Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout.org, July 30, 2012
Housing Bubbles Are Not Funny
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, July 24, 2012
Raising the Minimum Wage Is Cheap and Easy
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 23, 2012
The Health Care Battles in the United States
Dean Baker
Caixin Online, July 19, 2012
Technology and Inequality: The Happy Myth
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 16, 2012
California Gold Rush? Righting Underwater Mortgages
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 16, 2012
The D.C. Blackouts and Global Warming
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, July 9, 2012
Wall Street Speculation Tax: A Way to Address Corruption
Dean Baker
Yahoo! Finance, July 9, 2012
The Dirt on Erskine Bowles: The Tame Half of Bowles-Simpson
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 9, 2012
Leisure Beats Unemployment
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 3, 2012
A Wall Street Gambling Tax: The Remedy to Inequality
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 2, 2012
Will Global Warming Do in Mitt Romney?
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, July 1, 2012
The Regulation Monster
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 25, 2012
The Story of the Housing Crash Recession That Politicians Don’t Want to Tell
Dean Baker
Yahoo! Finance, June 19, 2012
Will the Fed Rescue the Economy?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 18, 2012
Liberals Working for the Right
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 18, 2012
The Return of the Demographic Crisis
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, June 13, 2012
Fed Survey Shows Middle Class Took a Big Hit
Dean Baker
CNN, June 13, 2012
The Debt is Not a Measure of Generational Burdens
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 12, 2012
Alan Simpson: The Washington Elite’s Attack Dog
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 4, 2012
Bad Jobs Report Distracts from the Real Bad Economic News
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 4, 2012
Hot Air Over Gas Prices
Dean Baker and Bruce Bartlett
Politico, May 30, 2012
If Facebook Falls on Its Face
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 22, 2012
Mortgage and Securitization Fraud: Where’s the Task Force?
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 21, 2012
The Pirate Party Knows Where the Money Is
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, May 14, 2012
Deficit Reduction: The Great Distraction
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 14, 2012
The Human Disaster of Unemployment
Dean Baker and Kevin Hassett
The New York Times, May 12, 2012
Greek Voters Give the Boot to Austerity
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 7, 2012
Bernie Sanders Advocates a Free Market in AIDS Drugs
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 7, 2012
Mitt Romney's Partner in Crime: Ed Conard's Unintended Consequences
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 2, 2012
Everyone Agrees That the Decline in Private-Sector Pay Has Been Understated
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 2, 2012
The United Kingdom Does Austerity So We Don’t Have To
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, May 1, 2012
Budget Bunk: The Old Pox on Both Your Houses Game
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 30, 2012
Bad Economic News: Worrying About the Weather
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 26, 2012
Killing the Messenger: The Downsizing and Death of the Postal Service
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, April 23, 2012
Shareholders Say No on Citigroup CEO Pay
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 23, 2012
The Son of the Housing Bubble: First-Time Homebuyers Tax Credit
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, April 18, 2012
Work Sharing: The Way for States to Reduce Unemployment
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, April 18, 2012
The War on Public Sector Workers
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 16, 2012
Faith-Based Economics at the European Central Bank
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 11, 2012
Obama and Romney are Politicians, not Visionaries
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 9, 2012
The Weather and the U.S. Economy
Dean Baker
Caixin Online, April 9, 2012
The United States as Number 2
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, April 4, 2012
En Español
The Supreme Scream: Obamacare After the Court Ruling
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 2, 2012
Home Health Aides Deserve a Living Wage
Dean Baker and Steven L. Dawson
The Washington Post, March 29, 2012
White House Burning: Putting Out the Wrong Fire
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, March 26, 2012
The Paul Ryan Rorschach Test
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 26, 2012
The Rent Is Too Damn High: Apple Edition
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 21, 2012
What’s This “We” Jazz, White Man? Paul Ryan Edition
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 20, 2012
Medicare Costs Too Much and They Better Not Cut It
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 19, 2012
Obama Deserves Credit for the Recovery
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), March 13, 2012
Getting Labor Unions to the Adult Table: Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, March 13, 2012
Affirmative Action for School Reformers?
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 12, 2012
The Economic Recovery Fad
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 12, 2012
The Iceland Follies: Loony Currency Schemes
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 6, 2012
Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Bowles-Simpson Commission Report
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 5, 2012
Gas in the U.S. Elections
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 27, 2012
Work Sharing: A Creative Way to Avoid Unemployment
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 27, 2012
What If the Next Steve Jobs is Chinese?
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 21, 2012
Greece and Those Wild and Crazy Guys at the ECB
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, February 21, 2012
Work Sharing Provision an Essential Part of Payroll Tax Cut Bill
Dean Baker
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), February 17, 2012
Revisiting the Second Great Depression and Other Fairy Tales
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 16, 2012
Policy Follies in the Housing Market: The First-Time Homebuyers Tax Credit
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 13, 2012
Mortgage Settlement Lets Banks Off the Hook, Again
Dean Baker
CNN, February 13, 2012
Deficit Reduction Won't Create Jobs
Dean Baker
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), February 10, 2012
The Facebook Follies
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, February 7, 2012
Debt, Toll Roads and Patents
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 6, 2012
United Kingdom Shows That Austerity Does Not Grow the Economy
Dean Baker
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), January 30, 2012
A Competitive Dollar: The Missing Link in President Obama’s Manufacturing Agenda
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 30, 2012
Invisible Bond Vigilantes Attack the White House
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 24, 2012
Do Progressives Have to Be Loser Liberals?
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, January 24, 2012
The Surefire Way to End Online Piracy: End Copyright
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 23, 2012
A Heaping Helping of Ridicule for the Fed, Please
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 18, 2012
Time Is On Our Side: The Survival of Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 16, 2012
The Housing Bubble and What Greenspan Should Have Done
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, January 11, 2012
Will Romney Lie His Way to the White House?
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 9, 2012
The Bogus Case Against the Minimum Wage Hike
Dean Baker and John Schmitt
Salon, January 4, 2012
Budget Balancers and Global Warmers
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 3, 2012
Keystone Jobs Versus Competitive Dollar Jobs
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 2, 2012
The ECB’s High Wire Act
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, December 22, 2011
The Payroll Tax Battle: Winning What We Don’t Really Want
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 19, 2011
The Cowardly Senator Wyden
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 19, 2011
The Eurozone Crisis Is Not About Market Discipline
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, December 19, 2011
Economic Conflicts with China and Class War in the United States
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 12, 2011
Will an Incompetent European Central Bank be Allowed to Wreck the World Economy?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 5, 2011
The Stop Online Piracy Act: Class War in Cyberspace
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 5, 2011
What Should the Fed Do Next?: It Has to Be More Aggressive
Dean Baker
The New York Times (Room for Debate), November 30, 2011
Time to Retake Politics from the One Percent in Both Political Parties
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 28, 2011
Time for the Fed to Take Over the European Central Bank’s Job
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, November 28, 2011
The Supercommittee of the One Percent Goes Down in Flames
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 23, 2011
En Español
The Supercommittee Should Go Really Big and Turn Against the One Percent
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 21, 2011
Will the Euro be Destroyed by Ideologues?
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, November 17, 2011
The Myth of the Wealthy Elderly
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 14, 2011
If the Greek People Got to Negotiate Directly with the ECB and the IMF
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 8, 2011
The One Percent Turns Class War Into Generational War
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 7, 2011
The Spurious Case Against a Financial Transactions Tax
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, November 2, 2011
Secret of the Flat Tax: Middle Class Pays More So Rich Pay Less
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), November 1, 2011
Occupy the European Central Bank
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, November 1, 2011
Supercommittee of the One Percent Won’t Even Think of Taxing Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 31, 2011
A Generation of CEOs Who Don’t Know How to Raise Wages
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 24, 2011
Trichet’s Rein at the ECB: No Party for Europe
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 24, 2011
Regulation Is the Cause of Unemployment: Badge of Ignorance
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, October 21, 2011
#OccupyWallStreet: The Real Tea Party
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), October 19, 2011
Dodd-Frank Brings Transparency to Financial Industry
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), October 17, 2011
En Español
Democracy Versus Bankers at the Fed
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 17, 2011
When Being Rich Makes Us Poor, People Should Occupy Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 10, 2011
En Español
Double Dip Nonsense: Excuses for a Pathetic Recovery
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 10, 2011
Taxing Nothing: Make Owners of Vacant Property Pay
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, October 7, 2011
What Would Keynes Do? Get the Dollar Down
Dean Baker
The Nation, October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs and Alan Greenspan
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, October 5, 2011
Bill Clinton Is Baaaaaaaaack!
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 3, 2011
Stimulus Works, But Only When It Is Big Enough
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), September 27, 2011
Why Don’t the Deficit Hawks Want to Tax Wall Street?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 26, 2011
Can China Save the World Economy?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 22, 2011
The Social Security Tax Cut and the Ignorance of Political Experts
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, September 20, 2011
Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? Is the Washington Post a Criminal Enterprise?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 19, 2011
How Global Trade Can Rein in Health Costs
Dean Baker and Jagdish Bhagwati
CNN Money, September 16, 2011
Three Things to Love (and a Few More to Hate) About Obama’s Jobs Plan
Dean Baker
The New Republic, September 15, 2011
Does President Obama Want to Impose a Crushing Burden on Our Children?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 12, 2011
Lehman Three Years Later: What We Haven’t Learned
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 12, 2011
The Corrupt Arithmetic of the Federal Reserve Board
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, September 9, 2011
The Trick to Creating Middle Class Jobs: Stop Destroying Them
Dean Baker
Room for Debate (The New York Times), September 6, 2011
Getting Those Republican Attacks Right
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 6, 2011
Santa Claus and the S&P Market Crash
Dean Baker
The New Republic, August 27, 2011
Do Liberals Have to Be Losers?
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, August 29, 2011
Hurricane Perry Bashes East Coast
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 29, 2011
President Obama Discovers How Serious the Recession Is
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 29, 2011
The Double Dipsters are Wrong and It Makes a Difference
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, August 24, 2011
Why Is President Obama So Anxious to Cut Social Security?
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 22, 2011
How Long Will We Tolerate an Incompetent Cult Running Central Banks?
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, August 22, 2011
Shorter Weeks, Longer Vacations
Dean Baker
Room For Debate (The New York Times), August 16, 2011
The S&P Downgrade Market Plunge Myth
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 15, 2011
President Obama Joins the Cult of Economics Deniers
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 15, 2011
Why We Aren't Like Greece
Dean Baker
The Nation, August 10, 2011
Work Sharing is the Answer
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, August 10, 2011
India's Exports Vital for the U.S.
Dean Baker
Financial Chronicle, August 7, 2011
The Economic Illiterates Step Up the Attack on Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 8, 2011
Will the Popular Movements Teach the European Central Bank Economics?
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, August 8, 2011
En Español
A Fix for the Debt Ceiling That No One Is Talking About
Dean Baker
The New Republic, August 1, 2011
Will the U.S. Credit Rating Be Downgraded? Does the Norwegian Lunatic Killer Like Americans?
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 1, 2011
While They Argued Over the Debt Limit
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 1, 2011
The Nonsense Battle Over the Debt Ceiling
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, July 27, 2011
President Obama Doesn't Understand the Origins of the Deficit
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, July 27, 2011
The Payroll Tax Cut: A Stimulus That Progressives Should Oppose
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 25, 2011
Pain with the Consumer Price Index
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 25, 2011
President Obama’s Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security but No Taxes for Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 18, 2011
Budget Games: Wall Street Calls The Play for Republicans
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 16, 2011
Budget Blowhards: Why the Budget Debate Is Destined to Become Ever More Painful
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 11, 2011
Economic Illiteracy: Blame the Teachers
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 11, 2011
Central Banks and Budget Deficits
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, July 6, 2011
The Employer Payroll Tax Cut
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 5, 2011
If It’s Not Different This Time, Why Do We Have Economists?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 5, 2011
En Español
Ron Paul’s Surprisingly Lucid Solution to the Debt Ceiling Impasse
Dean Baker
The New Republic, July 2, 2011
Keep Social Security Safe from Politicians who Want to Save it
Dean Baker
The Des Moines Register, July 3, 2011
Work Sharing: A Full Employment Plan Too Simple for the Wonks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 30, 2011
Right to Rent: Will the Obama Administration Finally Fix Housing?
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 27, 2011
When Did the IMF Learn About the Economy?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 20, 2011
The Endgame on the Debt Ceiling
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 20, 2011
Creationists, Flat-Earthers, and Deficit Hawks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 10, 2011
Political Advice to Republicans on Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 6, 2011
Are We Entering the Second Great Depression?
Dean Baker
The New Republic, June 6, 2011
Bernie Sanders Tries Some Clear Thinking on Prescription Drugs
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 31, 2011
The Beatification of Senator Simpson
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 31, 2011
Union Maid Does in Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Next President of France
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 24, 2011
Peter Peterson and the Deficit Ostriches
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 23, 2011
Can the Greek People Teach the ECB Economics?
Dean Baker
May 19, 2011, International Relations and Security Network
More Bad Housing Policy
Dean Baker
May 19, 2011, The Guardian Unlimited
The Stimulus Did Not Create Jobs: The 35,496th Try
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 17, 2011
The Good News and the Bad News in the Social Security Trustees' Report
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 16, 2011
Boosting the Economy: The Best Way to Balance the Budget
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 10, 2011
The Big Retailers Versus the Big Banks: It Makes a Big Difference
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 9, 2011
Job Creation the Old Economic Textbook Way: Reducing the Value of the Dollar
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 2, 2011
Why Does Senator McCaskill Want to Bankrupt Our Children?
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 2, 2011
If the U.S. Economy Went Off a Cliff Would Anyone Notice?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 2, 2011
It’s the Health Care Stupid
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 26, 2011
Deficit Fever: Loon Tune Time Among the Elite
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, April 26, 2011
The Battle is Over Money, Not Philosophy
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 25, 2011
Budget Deficits, Accounting Identities, and China Bashing
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 22, 2011
Representative Ryan Makes a Clear Case
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 18, 2011
Tyranny of the Central Bankers
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, April 18, 2011
Obama's Focus Should Be on Jobs, Not Deficit
Dean Baker
CNN, April 13, 2011
What is Hard to Understand About Firing Economists?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 12, 2011
Paul Ryan in Your Pockets: Government by People Who Hate You
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 11, 2011
Honest Economic Thinking Is More Important Than "New" Economic Thinking
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, April 11, 2011
Representative Ryan's Valuable Service
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, April 5, 2011
The Great Jobs Report Celebration
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 5, 2011
It’s Time for Representative Ryan to Man Up
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 4, 2011
Macho Men are Wrong on Social Security
Dean Baker
The Financial Times, March 30, 2011
The Debit Card No-Brainer and Financial Reform
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 30, 2011
The Deficit Hawks Target Nurses and Firefighters
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 28, 2011
The Imaginary World in Which Washington Lives
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 23, 2011
Japan’s Earthquake May Shake World Economy
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 22, 2011
Evidence of Intelligent Life at the IMF
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 15, 2011
The Key to Rebuilding Workers’ Power: Unrig the Rules
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 14, 2011
The National Debt, Productivity, and Our Children
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 7, 2011
Public Pensions 101
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 7, 2011
Spending Cuts Won't Help 25 Million Hurting for Jobs
Dean Baker
CNNMoney.com, March 3, 2011
Going Sideways: The Battle Over Budget Cuts
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 28, 2011
Right to Work: Representation Without Taxation
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 28, 2011
Washington Wrecks the Economy: More Evidence
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, February 22, 2011
The Attack Against Social Security: The Power of Incompetence
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 22, 2011
Greenspan’s Incompetence Badgers Wisconsin’s Workers
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 20, 2011
Common Ground with Republicans: Nix NSF Funding for Economics
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, February 18, 2011
Brookings’ “Heckuva Job, Brownie” Moment: Greenspan’s Keynote Address
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 15, 2011
The President as Storyteller-in-Chief
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 14, 2011
Beyond the Huffington Post Windfall: A New Way to Finance Creative Work
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, February 11, 2011
If Progressives Wanted to Win
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 7, 2011
State Budget Cuts: Starting at the Top
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 7, 2011
The Wrong Crisis
Dean Baker
Boston Review, February 7, 2011
The Trouble With Corporate Taxes: Start With the Drug Companies
Dean Baker
Room for Debate (The New York Times), February 1, 2011
The U.K. Does Austerity So the U.S. Doesn’t Have To: Round II
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 1, 2011
Debts Should be Honored, Except When the Money is Owed to Working People
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 31, 2011
Should the United States Dissolve Its Government-Sponsored Enterprises?
Dean Baker
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 23, 2011
Peter Peterson’s Budget Ball
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 24, 2011
The Huffington Post, January 24, 2011
The Real Battle With China: Goldman Sachs versus American Workers
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 23, 2011
Can Harry Be a Hero?
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, January 21, 2011
The Tidal Wave of Nonsense on Demography
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 20, 2011
Making Social Security More Progressive and the Games They Play in Washington
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 18, 2011
The Economists Forgive Themselves
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 15, 2011
The Market and Inequality: Progressives Lose When They Accept the Right's Framing
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, January 11, 2011
The Progressive Case Against Obama’s New Team
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 10, 2011
How Many Economists Does it Take to See an Trillion Housing Bubble?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 5, 2011
Hugh Jidette and Hugh Janus Go to Washington
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 3, 2011
GDP Outlook in 2011 After the Tax Deal
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 21, 2010
Saving Social Security: Stopping Obama’s Next Bad Deal
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 20, 2010
Shared Sacrifice: Where's Wall Street's Share?
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, December 19, 2010
Peter Orszag Goes to Citigroup and the Prospects for Tax Reform
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 14, 2010
The Tax Deal and the Apocalypse
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 13, 2010
Social Security Tax Cut: A Deal Breaker
Dean Baker
The Hill, December 9, 2010
In Defense of Giving Money to Rich People
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, December 7, 2010
The Deficit Panic, the TARP Financial Collapse and Other End of the World Stories
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 6, 2010
The Green Economy Is Here and It Ain’t Pretty
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 6, 2010
Deficit Distraction Disorder
Dean Baker
AOL News, December 3, 2010
If China Wants to Pay for Our Vacations, Should We Let Them?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 1, 2010
Deficit Hawks: Substituting Money for Competence
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 29, 2010
Beating Up On Brad DeLong
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, November 28, 2010
'Bailout' Capitalism: Two Years On
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, November 25, 2010
Sins of Commissions: What Billion Can't Buy
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 22, 2010
The European Central Bank Sinks Ireland
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 22, 2010
Compromise on Social Security and Medicare? Why My Center-Left Friends are Wrong
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, November 20, 2010
Aqua Buddha and the Number 21
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 15, 2010
Trade Flows and Currency Values for the G-20
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 15, 2010
Deep-Six the Deficit Commission Report
Dean Baker
The New Republic, November 11, 2010
The Deficit Commission’s Parallel Universe
Dean Baker
The Boston Review, November 11, 2010
The Wall Street TARP Gang Wants to Take Away Your Social Security
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, November 9, 2010
Quantitative Easing Round II: The Fed’s Second Shot
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 8, 2010
The Deficit Commission Tsunami
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 8, 2010
Bewitching Hour for Campaign Craziness?
Dean Baker
Politico (The Arena), November 2, 2010
Erskine Bowles: Social Security's Enemy No. 1?
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 1, 2010
Response to Avishai: Round III
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, October 30, 2010
Why Growth Still Feels Like Recession
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 29, 2010
Obama and the Story of the Great Recession: Rejoinder to Avishai
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, October 28, 2010
Economic Disaster, Krugman and Avishai, and Redefining "Small"
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, October 26, 2010
The U.K. Swallows Austerity So We Don’t Have To
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 25, 2010
Keeping Fear Alive: The Deficit Hawks Push Their Agenda
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 25, 2010
The DeFazio Congressional Race: Stop Wall Street Before It Kills Again
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, October 20, 2010
Rare Earth Materials and China: Housing Bubble Deniers Get Another One Wrong
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, October 19, 2010
Mortgage Mayhem: Fairy Tales on the Housing Market
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 18, 2010
Foreclosure Moratorium: Cracking Down on Liar Liens
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 18, 2010
Globalizing Healthcare: A Prescription with Benefits
Dean Baker
OECD Observer, October 2010
Beneficent Counterfeiters and Economic Stimulus
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 12, 2010
The Social Security Pledge Versus the Old Politics
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 11, 2010
The Bipartisan Attack on Medicare
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, October 11, 2010
Inside Job: The Antidote to the TARP Celebrations
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, October 8, 2010
Currency Wars and Accounting Identities
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 6, 2010
Sleazy Xenophobia In Pursuit of Social Security Cuts
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 4, 2010
Tax Breaks Are Not Sufficient to Restore Employment
Dean Baker and Sarita Gupta
Common Dreams, October 1, 2010
Foreclosure Funny Business: Banks Work Under Different Rules
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 27, 2010
Are The Politicians Stealing Your Social Security?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 27, 2010
The Terrible Tale of the TARP Two Years Later
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 20, 2010
The Role of Government and the Foreclosure Crisis
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 20, 2010
The Soft Bigotry of Incredibly Low Expectations: The Case of Economists
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 13, 2010
Forced Busing, the Deficit Commission and Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 13, 2010
Will Politicians Pay a Price for Leaving 15 Million People Unemployed?
Dean Baker
WashingtonPost.com, September 10, 2010
Looking Grim: The Prospects for Recovery in Europe
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, September 9, 2010
Ben Bernanke’s Trifecta of Errors
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 8, 2010
Is Defaulting on the National Debt on the Table?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 7, 2010
Dana Milbank Pays Homage to Alan Simpson's Sexism and Ignorance
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, September 4, 2010
Advice from the IMF: Why Do These People Still Have Jobs?
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, September 2, 2010
Burning Down the House: Where the Housing Market Is Going
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 31, 2010
Senator Simpson’s Quick Budget Quiz
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 30, 2010
Become a Deficit Hawk: You Can Be Offensive, Sexist, and Ignorant
Dean Baker
Firedoglake, August 27, 2010
Pierce the Housing Bubble
Dean Baker
The New York Times, August 25, 2010
Senator Simpson: He's Not Just Offensive, He's Ignorant
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, August 25, 2010
Surprised Economists Not Good for the Economy
Dean Baker
The Hill, August 25, 2010
Social Security: The Republicans Are Right
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 23, 2010
Fannie and Freddie Live Public or Die
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 23, 2010
When Wall Street Rules, We Get Wall Street Rules
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, August 20, 2010
Should We Bury Macroeconomists at Ground Zero?
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, August 18, 2010
The Public Pension Outrage and Alan Greenspan’s Pension
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 16, 2010
En Español
Bernanke’s Paralysis and the Need for an Independent Fed
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 16, 2010
Economists: The Missing Heroes of the State and Local Government Pension Crisis
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, August 10, 2010
This Economy Stinks, Yes It Does
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 10, 2010
That Joke About Intergenerational Equity
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 10, 2010
Double-Dip Recessions and the Strange Tale of Final Demand
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 2, 2010
Economists Tell the Masses: "It Could Have Been Worse"
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 2, 2010
The Budget Deficit Chicken Hawks
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 26, 2010
The Lights Are Out in Washington
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 26, 2010
The Senators Who Gave Us 15 Million Unemployed Want to Deny Them Benefits
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, July 19, 2010
Helping Homeowners: More Money to the Banks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 19, 2010
J.P. Morgan CEO Fesses Up to Monopolistic Pricing
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 19, 2010
Elizabeth Warren for Consumer Protection Board
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, July 16, 2010
The Path of Unemployment in the Great Recession
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, July 14, 2010
Erskine Bowles and the Price of Ignorance: 335,000 a Year
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, July 15, 2010
The Attack of the Real Black Helicopter Gang: The IMF Is Coming for Your Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 12, 2010
Drunk Driving at BP
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 12, 2010
Time to Put the Deficit Commission Out of Our Misery
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 6, 2010
Republicans: The Party of Unemployment
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 6, 2010
The Right Prescription for an Ailing Economy
Dean Baker
The Nation, June 30, 2010
Boehner Puts Democrats on the Spot
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, June 30, 2010
Is Advice from the IMF Better than Advice from a Drunk in the Street?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 28, 2010
En Español
America Speaks Back: The Effort to Gut Social Security and Medicare Takes a Hit
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, June 28, 2010
Wall Street Congratulates Washington: A Job Well-Done
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 28, 2010
Soothing the Spirits of the Restless Bond Market
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 21, 2010
America Speaks Back: Derailing the Drive to Cut Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 21, 2010
Comparisons Between U.S., Greece Are Overblown
Dean Baker
The Hill, June 15, 2010
Weak Retail Sales Surprise Economists: Should We Be Surprised?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 14, 2010
"Free Market Fundamentalism" An Invention of Progressives
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 14, 2010
The Conservative Nanny State Strikes Again
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, June 10, 2010
Robbed of Jobs by the Deficit Cultists
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 7, 2010
Overcoming the Debt Trap
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 7, 2010
Opposing View on Housing Finance: Go Back to the Old Design
Dean Baker
USA Today, June 4, 2010
The TARP and the Deficit Hawks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 1, 2010
Representative Jason Altmire: Job-Killing Deficit Hawk
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 1, 2010
Doing It for Our Children: Cutting Social Security and the BP Oil Spill
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 28, 2010
The Cult of Subprime Central Bankers
Dean Baker
Huffington Post, May 27, 2010
It’s Too Bad Keynes Didn’t Write in English
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 17, 2010
Family Friendly Cuts to Social Security: The Myth of Affluence Testing
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 17, 2010
Wall Street: Land of the Million Dollar Babies
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 11, 2010
The Non-Problem of the Banks Not Lending
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 10, 2010
Derailing the Wall Street Attack on Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 10, 2010
Unwashed Masses 1, Fed 0: Sanders Scores
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 7, 2010
A Presidency in Peril: Warnings from Robert Kuttner
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 4, 2010
The Greek Crisis and Our Parents’ Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 3, 2010
Financial Reform: Will We Feel Better the Morning After?
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 3, 2010
Greek Austerity Should Include a Tax Amnesty
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 3, 2010
Deficit Reduction: Argument by Authority
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 26, 2010
The Deficit and Our Children: Just the Facts
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 26, 2010
Goldman’s Scam #5476, Yes, It Can Get Even Worse
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 19, 2010
Financial Reform is Good, Firing Bernanke Would Be Better
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 19, 2010
The New War on Social Security
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 12, 2010
Wall Street Deficit Hawks Have No Shame
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 12, 2010
This Isn’t Canada: Krugman on Too Big to Fail
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 7, 2010
Ending the Myth of ‘Market Fundamentalism’
Dean Baker
Dissent, Spring 2010
Deficit Commissions and Financial Speculation Taxes: Who Is Serious?
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 5, 2010
Work-Sharing Could Work for Us
Dean Baker and Kevin Hassett
The Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2010
Will the Washington Crew Ever Notice the Housing Bubble?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 29, 2010
China: What Do We Want?
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 29, 2010
Will U.S. Debt Lose Its AAA Rating? Downgrade Moody's
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 23, 2010
The Passage of Health Care Reform: Time to Talk Seriously About Health Care
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 21, 2010
The Inquisition for Fed Appointees
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 15, 2010
When the U.S. Becomes Greece: Drivel from the Deficit Hawks
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 15, 2010
Financial Innovation: What Is It Good For? Credit Default Swaps
Dean Baker
TPM Café, March 11, 2010
Wall Street Wants a Free Lunch, Not a Free Market
Dean Baker
Boston Review, March/April 2010
It Isn’t a Financial Crisis #76,845
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 8, 2010
Robert Rubin: Why Won’t He Go Away?
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 8, 2010
Financial Innovation: What Is It Good For?
Dean Baker
TPM Café, March 4, 2010
Arizona Leads the Way in Combating Foreclosure
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 1, 2010
Economic Policy and Unemployment: The Power of Stupidity
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 1, 2010
Sharing the Workload
Dean Baker
Policy Network, 2010
Make Speculators Pay
Dean Baker
Forbes, February 25, 2010
No Hire Power
Dean Baker
The New Republic, February 24, 2010
Is the Fed Breaking the Law?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 22, 2010
The Budget Deficit, the Debt and the Dollar
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 22, 2010
The Folks Who Missed the Bubble Want Your Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 16, 2010
The Savvy Mr. Blankfein
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 15, 2010
Right to Rent: The Best Response to the Housing Crash
Dean Baker
Shelterforce, February 12, 2010
Schumer-Hatch: Money for Nothing
Dean Baker
TPM Café, February 12, 2010
The Budget Deficit Crisis Crisis
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 8, 2010
Progressive Taxes Win Big In Oregon
Dean Baker
TPM Café, February 8, 2010
No Way Out: The Political Constraints Obstructing a U.S. Recovery
Dean Baker
Century Weekly (China), February 1, 2010
The Second Great Depression Bogeyman
Dean Baker
TPM Café, February 1, 2010
Walk Away: It is God's Work
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 1, 2010
Consumer Protection Agency Would Stop Economy-Gutting 'Bubbles'
Dean Baker
Sacramento Bee, January 30, 2010
In Troubled Economic Times, Bernanke Must Go
Dean Baker
NPR, January 26, 2010
The Great Recession Didn't Have to Happen
Dean Baker
AFL-CIO Online, January 25, 2010
Leveling the Political and Economic Playing Field
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 25, 2010
Reappointing Bernanke: We Won't Get Tarped Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 25, 2010
The Economy Is a Disaster: We Should Fix It
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 19, 2010
Making the Banks Pay
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 18, 2010
The Case for Bernanke: A Really Bad Joke
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 11, 2009
Does Congress Want to Default on the National Debt?
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 11, 2010
The Big Bank Theory: How Government Helps Financial Giants Get Richer
Dean Baker
Boston Review, January/February 2010
Peterson-Pew Commission Uses Jingoism to Advance Budget Agenda
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 4, 2010
The Washington Post: R.I.P.
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 4, 2010
Wall Street’s War Against Main Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 28, 2009
Tobacco Lobbyists Join Wall Streeters On Debt Crusade
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 21, 2009
We Face a Huge Demographic Problem?
Dean Baker
PBS NewsHour, December 16, 2009
Ben Bernanke as Public Intellectual? Are You Serious?
Dean Baker
The Prospect (UK), December 16, 2009
Financial Transactions Taxes: Easy and Fun Money
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 14, 2009
Goldman Sachs: Friend of Planet Earth
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 14, 2009
The Return of the TARP Hostage Takers
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, December 10, 2009
Yes, Virginia, It Is Bernanke’s Fault
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, December 7, 2009
The Reason for 15 Million Unemployed: Poor Thinking at the Top
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 7, 2009
Tax Credits for More Jobs
Dean Baker
Room for Debate, December 6, 2009
Fed Transparency Should Precede Bernanke Confirmation
Dean Baker and Mark A. Calabria
Huffington Post, December 2, 2009
“Commission” is Washingtonspeak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 1, 2009
Is “Helping Homeowners” Washingtonspeak for Bailing Out Banks?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 30, 2009
Bernanke Forgot About His Role In Causing the Great Recession
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, November 29, 2009
The Vampire Banks Rise Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 23, 2009
The Budget Crisis: The Blame is Bipartisan
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 23, 2009
An Unemployment Solution: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours
Dean Baker
The Nation, November 17, 2009
The Financial Crisis: A Failure of Regulators, Not Regulations
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 16, 2009
Obama's 'Nuclear Option' on China's Yuan
Dean Baker
Christian Science Monitor, November 16, 2009
Hostage Takers in the Senate
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 16, 2009
Breaking up the Banks, Like Renegotiating NAFTA?
Dean Baker
TPM Café, November 10, 2009
Massive Defense Spending Leads to Job Loss
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 10, 2009
Financial Transactions Taxes Must Come Before a National Sales Tax
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 9, 2009
The Homebuyers Tax Credit and Free Market Fundamentalism
Dean Baker
TPM Café, November 5, 2009
Statement on Fannie Mae's Deed for Lease Program
November 5, 2009
Financial Reform: Don’t Touch the Banks, Get a Smarter Fed
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 2, 2009
Stimulus and Jobs: We Can Do Better
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 2, 2009
The American Bankers Association's 15 Minutes of Fame in Chicago
Dean Baker
Huffington Post, October 26, 2009
Why Do Bankers Need to Be Paid 1000 Times as Much as Firefighters?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 26, 2009
People Power Matters: The Public Option Lives!
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 26, 2009
Insurers Argue for Public Option
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 19, 2009
Does Citigroup Need China?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 19, 2009
The Silliest Form of Stimulus: Homebuyer's Tax Credit by a Mile
Dean Baker
TPM Café, October 17, 2009
Won’t You Please Come to Chicago, No One Else Can Take Your Place
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 12, 2009
Trade in Health Care: When “Free Traders” Become Protectionists
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 12, 2009
The Country Has Sustained Much Greater Debt Burdens in the Past
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2009
Our Health Care System is Broken
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2009
Debunking the Dumping-the-Dollar Conspiracy
Dean Baker
Foreign Policy, October 7, 2009
Washington Must Do More to Put Unemployed Americans Back to Work
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2009
Unemployment is Up, But Bernanke Saved the Banks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 5, 2009
The Recovery: Can You Feel It Yet?
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 5, 2009
Medicare Buy-in: What’s Wrong With Giving People a Choice?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 28, 2009
Progressives and the Budget Deficit
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 28, 2009
Can the Townhallers Be Left, Rather Than Left Behind?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 21, 2009
The Rally Against Obamacare for the Banks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 21, 2009
The Public Plan Option and the Big Government Conservatives
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 14, 2009
Short Sellers: The Unsung Heroes of the Financial Crisis
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 14, 2009
Big Deficit Bob Rubin and the Strong Dollar
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 8, 2009
Ben Bernanke’s Bad Memory
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 8, 2009
Job Situation May Be Improving
Dean Baker
The Washington Note, September 4, 2009
Irresponsibly Following the Congressional Budget Office
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 31, 2009
Bank Profits Are Up: Did You Hear Anyone Say “Thank You”?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 31, 2009
Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, August 26, 2009
CBO Warns of Higher Unemployment: Washington Worries About the Deficit
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, August 24, 2009
GreenspanFest ’09 and the Reappointment of Ben Bernanke
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 24, 2009
Owning Versus Renting
Dean Baker
Spotlight on Poverty, August 24, 2009
Goldman Sachs: The Golden Diaper Brigade
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 17, 2009
Are Mandates Mandatory?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, August 17, 2009
Saving Homes With a 'Right to Rent'
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, August 12, 2009
The Case for No Stimulus
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 10, 2009
Governor Palin’s Crazed Health Care Rant: Blame the Washington Post
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 10, 2009
Promises to the Drug Industry: Like Renegotiating NAFTA?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, August 7, 2009
Ben Bernanke’s Reappointment Campaign
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 3, 2009
Stimulus Works, Give Us More!
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 3, 2009
The Doctor is in . . . Bangkok
Dean Baker
The Boston Globe, August 2, 2009
Are We Better off Because of the Stimulus?
Dean Baker
The New Republic, July 31, 2009
Right to Rent: The Remedy to the Foreclosure Crisis
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 27, 2009
Good Medicine: Why Not for Everyone?
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 27, 2009
Right to Rent: A Non-Bureaucratic Solution to the Foreclosure Crisis
Dean Baker
The Hearing (Washington Post), July 20, 2009
Taxing Health Insurance Premiums and Subsidizing Health Care Providers
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 20, 2009
Séance on Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 20, 2009
More Stimulus, Please
By Dean Baker
USA Today, July 14, 2009
It’s Not Rationing, Stupid!
By Dean Baker
Truthout, July 13, 2009
Stimulus Arithmetic
Dean Baker
July 13, 2009, The Guardian Unlimited
Another 0 Million in AIG Bonuses: Why Don't We Take Our Chances?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, July 14, 2009
The Washington Post (a.k.a. Fox on 15th Street) Wants 15 Million People to Be Unemployed
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, July 12, 2009
The Green Shoots Are Dead: We Need a Third Stimulus
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 6, 2009
Life, Liberty, and Employer-Provided Health Insurance
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 6, 2009
Pecora Commission II: Super-Sleuths or Keystone Cops?
Dean Baker
Campaign for America's Future, July 1, 2009
NPR, the IMF, and the Global Savings Glut
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, June 16, 2009
The Global Warming Lie Detector
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 29, 2009
Making Financial Regulation Work: A Systemic Risk Regulator
Dean Baker
Washington Post, June 22, 2009
Fire Failed Regulators: The Best Regulatory Reform
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 22, 2009
Spreading the Wealth Around to the Insurance Industry & Friends
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 22, 2009
Barack Obama Vs. Harry and Louise
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 15, 2009
Obama Plan Improves Regulatory Structure but Doesn’t Address Accountability
Dean Baker
June 17, 2009
Investigating the Collapse: Looking for the Killer We Already Know
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 1, 2009
GM Bailout Makes Most Out of Bad Situation
Dean Baker
POLITICO, June 2, 2009
Reporters in Pom Poms: Cheerleading the Recovery
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 1, 2009
To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator, Fire Bernanke
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), May 31, 2009
Blue Cross Millionaires Are Scared to Compete With a Public Plan
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 25, 2009
Waterboard the Fed?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 25, 2009
Call It Friendly Intervention
Dean Baker
BusinessWeek, May 20, 2009
Was This Bailout Necessary?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 18, 2009
The Health Care Industry: Protectionism the Free Traders Love
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 18, 2009
Health Care and Student Loans: The Bad Guys Are on the Run
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 11, 2009
The Bankrupt Debate Over Bankrupting Our Children
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 11, 2009
The Banks Are Alright; Time to End the Bailouts
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 11, 2009
Combating Wage Theft
Dean Baker
TPMCafé Book Club (Talking Points Memo), May 11, 2009
Systematic Risk Regulators and the Power of Arithmetic
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 4, 2009
Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 4, 2009
Let's Make PPIP Fun!
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), April 30, 2009
The Obama Administration and the Bankers: 100 Days of Solicitude
Dean Baker
Huffington Post, April 28, 2009
Can Health Insurers Whine Louder Than Bankers?
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 27, 2009
Financial Transactions Tax: The Perfect Gift for Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 27, 2009
Malpractice
Dean Baker
Boston Review, May/June 2009
Why Does the Fed Operate in the Dark?
Dean Baker
Bailout Watch, April 20, 2009
The Wall Street Whine: Goldman Sachs Edition
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 20, 2009
The Tyranny of Bad Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 20, 2009
The Need to Tax the Wealthy
Dean Baker
The Economist, April 14, 2009
If the Bank Bailout Fails, Will Anyone Get the Boot?
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 13, 2009
False Hope in a Plunging Economy
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 13, 2009
If Economists Knew Arithmetic, We Might Waste Less Money on Banks
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, April 11, 2009
Hands off Social Security
Dean Baker
USA Today Opinion Blog, April 7, 2009
A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 6, 2009
How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions?
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, April 4, 2009
G-20: Why support the IMF?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 2, 2009
Europe's Leaders Must Say "Stimulus"
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, April 2, 2009
Obama's Restructuring of the Auto Industry
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, April 1-3, 2009
Geithner’s Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 30, 2009
China’s Empty Threat
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 30, 2009
A Stimulus for Working Fewer Hours
Dean Baker
Room for Debate (New York Times), March 29, 2009
Budget Deficits and Blow Up Dolls: It's the Economy Stupid!
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), March 25, 2009
The Geithner Plan: Billions More for Failed Banks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 23, 2009
The Battle Over the AIG Bonuses: Class War in the Media
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 23, 2009
More Federal Stimulus Funds Will Be Needed
Dean Baker
New Jersey Courier-Post, March 22, 2009
The Granny Bashers: Different Facts, Same Policy
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 16, 2009
Getting Lehman Wrong a Second Time
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 16, 2009
Unions and Unemployment: The Battle Over the Employee Free Choice Act Gets Ugly
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), March 13, 2009
Our Economy Fails Without Manufacturing
Dean Baker
Dissent Magazine, March 12, 2009
We Demand to See More Transparency
Dean Baker
Marketplace, March 9, 2009
Competing Views of Government: Universal Medicare or Government-Protected Insurance Companies
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 9, 2009
East Asia's Revenge: The Crash of the Housing Bubble
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 9, 2009
The Santelli Screed Hits Wrong Target on Mortgage Bailout
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 2, 2009
Are We Really Nostalgic for the Great Depression?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 2, 2009
The Solution to the Budget Deficit
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 23, 2009
The Peter G. Peterson Crew Is Coming After Your Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 23, 2009
Quick, What's Wrong With a Tax Cut that Shortens Work Hours?
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), February 16, 2009
Stop Baby Boomer Bashing: Protect Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 16, 2009
Stimulus II: Reaffirm Support for Social Security
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 16, 2009
The Economists Who Missed the Housing Bubble Are Coming After Your Social Security
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), February 13, 2009
The TARP Dog and Pony Show
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, February 11, 2009
Fewer Jobs: Stimulus on the Cheap
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 9, 2009
New Thinking on the Economy
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 9, 2009
Buy America and the Knee-Jerk "Free Trade" Crowd
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), February 5, 2009
Fannie Mae’s Overpaid Board: Can President Obama Turn Words Into Action?
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 2, 2009
Time for Bank Rationalization
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 2, 2009
Pass the Stimulus - Then Help Shorten the Work Week
Dean Baker
New York Daily News, January 28, 2009
The Banks Have Stolen Enough; It's Time to Take Them Over
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), January 24, 2009
The Anti-Stimulus Crowd Blows a Gasket
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 26, 2009
Time for Jobs: How Shorter Work Weeks / Work Years Can Be Stimulus
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 26, 2009
Stimulus Bashing and the Secret CBO Report
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), January 23, 2009
President Obama’s Big Stimulus
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 19, 2009
TARP II: Money for Banks, Not Homeowners
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 19, 2009
Helping Homeowners Without Helping Banks: The Economist's Solution
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), January 18, 2009
Give Money to Homeowners, Not Banks
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), January 13, 2009
Yes, We Can Make the Stimulus More Stimulating
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 12, 2009
Pssst, the Economy Is Collapsing, Don't Tell Congress
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), January 5, 2009
Watch the Dollar
Dean Baker
Foreign Policy, January/February 2009
The Highway to Hell: Bad Infrastructure
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 5, 2009
The Anti-Stimulus Crowd: The Fear of Success
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 5, 2009
Free Market Myth
Dean Baker
Boston Review, January/February 2009
Challenging Group Thinking Economists on Budget Deficits and the Dollar
Talking Points Memo, December 28, 2008
Part-Time Government Employees Earn $160,000 a Year
Talking Points Memo, December 25, 2008
Sex and Money: Are Women Regulators Different?
Truthout, December 22, 2008
Wages Soar as Stock Market Tanks
The Guardian Unlimited, December 22, 2008
Washington Post: The Problem is YOU, Not "We"
Talking Points Memo, December 21, 2008
Homeownership Without Equity: What's It Worth?
Truthout, December 15, 2008
The Ownership Society: R.I.P.
The Guardian Unlimited, December 15, 2008
If G.M. Were a Canadian Company, It Wouldn't be Asking for Help
Talking Points Memo, December 11, 2008
Obama Has the Right Medicine
The Guardian Unlimited, December 8, 2008
Question for Economic Experts: Can You Say “Housing Bubble"?
Truthout, December 8, 2008
A Financial Sector Small Enough to Drown in a Bathtub
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), December 8, 2008
The Banking Industry Wants To Help YOU!!!
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), December 3, 2008
IOUSA: Failed Scare Flick of the Decade
The Guardian Unlimited, December 1, 2008
Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around
Truthout, December 1, 2008
Paper Wealth and the Economic Crisis
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 28, 2008
Why Does Robert Rubin Still Have a Job?
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 25, 2008
The Bear is Cool: Overcoming Fears of Falling Stock Prices
Truthout, November 24, 2008
Geithner at Treasury: Can He Learn?
The Guardian Unlimited, November 24, 2008
Will Henry Paulson Sink Detroit?
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 20, 2008
The Stock Market, the Government Just Needs to Spend Money
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 20, 2008
Stopping Foreclosures With the Right to Rent: One More Time
Truthout, November 17, 2008
Health Care as Stimulus: The Best Way to Spend Big Bucks
The Guardian Unlimited, November 17, 2008
Libertarians and Corporate Power: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
CATO Unbound, November 17, 2008
Henry Paulson Takes Down the TARP: Sort Of
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 16, 2008
The Obama Economic Team: Clinton Retreads?
The Guardian Unlimited, November 10, 2008
The G-20 and Biological Warfare
Truthout, November 10, 2008
The Next Treasury Secretary: What's Their Track Record?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 6, 2008
President Obama's Path to Greatness: Health Care As Stimulus
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 4, 2008
Getting to the Root of a Horror Story
The Oregonian, October 31, 2008
New Film on National Debt Focuses on Wrong Problem
The Houston Chronicle: October 31, 2008
Response to IOUSA Director Patrick Creadon
October 29, 2008
Bill O'Reilly is Responsible for the Housing Bubble/Crash
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 29, 2008
Greenspan Says “Who Could Have Known?”
Truthout, October 27, 2008
Ripping Off European Investors: The Great American Pastime
The Guardian Unlimited, October 27, 2008
Post Only Supports Bailouts for Robert Rubin, Not Autoworkers
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 27, 2008
Free Market Ideology Melts Down
International Relations and Security Network, October 27, 2008
Can We Stop "Spreading the Wealth Around"?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 25, 2008
Greenspan Follies: The World Is as Ayn Rand Would Have Predicted
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 23, 2008
Still A Boys' Club at Treasury: Where Is Sheila Bair?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 21, 2008
Redistribution: From Joe the Plumber to Robert Rubin
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 20, 2008
Peter Peterson’s Bad Economics
The Guardian Unlimited, October 20, 2008
Any Pay Cuts on Wall Street Yet?
Truthout, October 20, 2008
Generous Henry's Big Bailout
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 14, 2008
Are You Better Off? Reagan vs. Carter, and Obama vs. McCain
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo) (with John Schmitt), October 14, 2008
The Return of Great Depression Economics
The Guardian Unlimited, October 13, 2008
The Fannie/Freddie Flat Earth Theory
Truthout, October 13, 2008
Bailout Scorecard: Ignorant Masses 1, Elites 0
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 12, 2008
Statement on the Need for Coordinated Stimulus
October 10, 2008 (with Mark Weisbrot)
We Need to Drive a Stake into the Heart of Conservatism
TPM Café Book Club (Talking Points Memo), October 6, 2008
Wall Street Follows the Path of the Steel Industry in Pittsburgh
Truthout, October 6, 2008
Step One: Deflate the Housing Bubble
The Guardian Unlimited, October 6, 2008
Post Claims Paulson Misled Bush on Bailout
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 6, 2008
Stock Market Closes Below Monday Low: Come On Let's Have Some Hysteria!
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 3, 2008
Statement on Congressional Approval of Bailout
October 3, 2008
Letting the Bank Robber Fix the Bank's Books
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 3, 2008
Responsibility and the Bailout: Will They Resign If It Fails?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 2, 2008
The Credit Squeeze Scare
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 1, 2008
The Bailout Round II: Adult Version?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 29, 2008
Why Bail? The Banks Have a Gun Pointed at Their Head and Are Threatening to Pull the Trigger
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 29, 2008
The Bailout: Congress Endorses Conservative Nanny State
The Guardian Unlimited, September 29, 2008
Bailing on the Bailout, or Is It Too Big to Bail?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 26, 2008
No Bailout: Stop Rewarding Incompetence
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 25, 2008
The Washington Post and Peter Peterson: Two More Reasons to Oppose This Bailout
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 25, 2008
Wall Street Free Traders Become Wall Street Protectionists
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 23, 2008
No Blank Cheque for Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, September 22, 2008
Progressive Conditions for a Bailout
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 20, 2008
The Financial Meltdown Continues
September 19, 2008
A Reckoning with Wall Street
The Washington Times, September 18, 2008
Big Banks Go Bust: Time to Reform Wall Street
Blog for Our Future (Campaign for America's Future), September 15, 2008
John McCain Wants to Privatize Social Security
Truthout, September 15, 2008
Slinging Mud to Hide the Real Dirt
The Guardian Unlimited, September 15, 2008
Freddie's Dead
The Guardian Unlimited, September 8, 2008
The Whiners' Recession
Truthout, September 8, 2008
Statement on the Conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
September 8, 2008
John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet, II
The Guardian Unlimited, September 1, 2008
The Truth About Social Security
The Guardian Unlimited, August 25, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 19
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, August 21, 2008
Swift Boat Economics
Truthout, August 18, 2008
When You're in Jackson Hole, Stop Digging
The Guardian Unlimited, August 18, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 18
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, August 14, 2008
Let's Get Down to Gas Tax
The Guardian Unlimited, August 11, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 17
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, August 8, 2008
How Economic Ideas Make It Into the Mainstream
The Guardian Unlimited, August 4, 2008
The Compromise "Drill Anywhere" Plan
Truthout, August 4, 2008
Getting More For Less: The Not-So-Obvious Benefits of Publicly Funded Trials for New Drugs
Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter (July) 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 16
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, July 31, 2008
After the Housing Bill: Time to Address Foreclosures
Truthout, July 28, 2008
Fannie, Freddie and Minimum Wage
The Guardian Unlimited, July 28, 2008
The Recession in the United States: A Progress Report
The Hankyoreh (South Korea), July 1, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 15
TAP (The American Prospect), July 24, 2008
Paying for Fannie and Freddie's Mistakes
The Guardian Unlimited, July 21, 2008
Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
Truthout, July 21, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 14
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, July 17, 2008
A Tax Plan By Any Other Name
The Guardian Unlimited, July 14, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 13
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, July 10, 2008
A Cloudy Forecast for the US Economy
The Guardian Unlimited, July 7, 2008
Free Trade, Why "Free" Matters
Truthout, July 7, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 12
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, July 3, 2008
The Recession in the United States: A Progress Report
The Hankyoreh (South Korea), July 1, 2008
Help Workers, Not Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, June 30, 2008
Barack Care Versus John Care: Health Care Under the Next President
Truthout, June 30, 2008
AlterNet, July 11, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 11
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, June 27, 2008
Bloodletting on Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, June 23, 2008
John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet
Truthout, June 23, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 10
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, June 19, 2008
Insurance Fraud
The Guardian Unlimited, June 16, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 9
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, June 12, 2008
Big Pharma's Ransom Note
The Guardian Unlimited, June 2, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 8
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 29, 2008
Green Stimulus: Let's Try Again
Truthout, May 27, 2008
Bad Times in W.Va.: Can the Next President Help?
With Ted Boettner
Charleston Gazette (WV), May 25, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 7
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 22, 2008
Reverse Robin Hood
The Guardian Unlimited, May 20, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 6
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 15, 2008
What a New President Could Do for Oregon
With Charles Sheketoff
The Oregonian, May 15, 2008
Wrong Then, Wrong Again
The Guardian Unlimited, May 12, 2008
Universal Health Care or John Care
Truthout, May 12, 2008
Three Things that Won't Help the Foreclosure Crisis
With Liz Chimienti
Truthout, May 8, 2008
AlterNet, May 15, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 5
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 8, 2008
Return of the Granny Bashers
The Guardian Unlimited, May 5, 2008
Foreign Investment and the Recession in the United States
The Hankyoreh (South Korea), May 5, 2008
Coming up Short in North Carolina
With John Quinterno
News and Observer (NC), May 2, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 4
TAP Online (The American Prospect), May 1, 2008
Asleep at the Wheel
The Guardian Unlimited, April 28, 2008
Developing the New "Capitalists' Man"
Truthout, April 28, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 3
TAP Online (The American Prospect), April 24, 2008
The Homeownership Ideology
The Guardian Unlimited, April 21, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 2
TAP Online (The American Prospect), April 17, 2008
Sanctity of Contracts: Mortgages and Credit Cards
Truthout, April 14, 2008
Declaring Class War
The Guardian Unlimited, April 14, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 1
TAP Online (The American Prospect), April 10, 2008
The Foreclosure Prevention Act (a.k.a. the Bank and Builder Bailout Act)
Truthout, April 7, 2008
AlterNet, April 10, 2008
The Tip of the Iceberg
The Guardian Unlimited, April 7, 2008
Unions: Ensuring Social Justice for African Americans
AFL-CIO Point of View, April 2, 2008 (with John Schmitt)
The Welfare King of the 21st Century
Truthout, March 31, 2008
Someone Has to Pay
The Guardian Unlimited, March 31, 2008
Exit, Pursued By Bear Stearns
The Guardian Unlimited, March 24, 2008
The Housing Crash Recession: How Did We Get Here?
NOW (PBS), March 21, 2008
Fed Up with Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, March 18, 2008
The War at Home
The Guardian Unlimited, March 10, 2008
What Will President Obama Do?
de Volkskrant (Netherlands), March 8, 2008
The Hidden Homeowner Tax
The Guardian Unlimited, March 3, 2008
CommonDreams.org, March 4, 2008
Is Bush to Blame for the Economy?
The American Prospect (web only), February 25, 2008
AlterNet, March 4, 2008
Raising Taxes to Bail Out Robert Rubin
Truthout, February 25, 2008
AlterNet, February 26, 2008
Thrifty Thinking
The Guardian Unlimited, February 25, 2008
Does Ben Bernanke Have to Go?
Truthout, February 18, 2008
CommonDreams.org, February 20, 2008
Kicking the Habit
The Guardian Unlimited, February 18, 2008
Own to Rent? Yes We Can!
Oregon Independent, February 14, 2008
Help for the Homeless
The Guardian Unlimited, February 11, 2008
The Economic Hit from the War in Iraq
Newsday, February 10, 2008
The Recession and the Freedom to Organize
Point of View (AFL-CIO), February 6, 2008
These Loans Were Made for Walking: The End of the Subprime Crisis
Truthout, February 4, 2008
CommonDreams.org, February 5, 2008
The US Economy, Pravda Style
The Guardian Unlimited, January 28, 2008
Ben Bernanke: Supernanny?
Truthout, January 28, 2008
AlterNet, January 29, 2008
CommonDreams.org, January 29, 2008
Stimulating Politics
The Guardian Unlimited, January 21, 2008
A Green Lining
The Guardian Unlimited, January 14, 2008
Truthout, January 14, 2008
Organic Consumers Association, January 14, 2008
AlterNet, January 17, 2008
Year of the Fat Cats
The Guardian Unlimited, January 7, 2008
Insurers Whack Elderly to Celebrate New Year
Truthout, January 7, 2008
The Cost of Living
The Guardian Unlimited, January 1, 2008
CommonDreams.org, January 2, 2008
Edwards Comes Out on Top on the Economy
Truthout, December 24, 2007
CommonDreams.org, December 24, 2007
AlterNet, December 26, 2007
Santa Claus Comes to Wall Street
Truthout, December 24, 2007
AlterNet, December 24, 2007
Creative Thinking
The Guardian Unlimited, December 17, 2007
Alan Greenspan: The Boy in the Bubble
Truthout, December 17, 2007
AlterNet, December 20, 2007
Bubble Trouble
The Guardian Unlimited, December 10, 2007
CommonDreams.org, December 11, 2007
Free Trade for Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, December 3, 2007
Victories on the Left
Truthout, December 3, 2007
Stealing Christmas
The Guardian Unlimited, November 26, 2007
It Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Flexible Hours on the Job
Truthout, November 26, 2007
The Crisis That Isn't
The Guardian Unlimited, November 19, 2007
The Social Security Scare Squad: Reason to Hate the Media #567,945
Truthout, November 19, 2007
Outsourcing Healthcare
The Guardian Unlimited, November 12, 2007
AlterNet, November 12, 2007
CommonDreams.org, November 13, 2007
Homeownership: The Fast Path to Poverty
Truthout, November 12, 2007
AlterNet, November 12, 2007
Down with the Dollar
The Guardian Unlimited, November 5, 2007
Adjustment Assistance and Globalization: Not Much of a Deal
Truthout, November 5, 2007
Selective Thinking
The Guardian Unlimited, October 30, 2007
The Success of Amazon: Welfare As We Should Know It
Truthout, October 29, 2007
AlterNet, October 30, 2007
CommonDreams.org, October 30, 2007
Chicago Sun-Times, November 4, 2007
Own to Rent: The Right Bailout
The Guardian Unlimited, October 22, 2007
Bailing Out Wall Street - Again
The Guardian Unlimited, October 17, 2007
AlterNet, October 18, 2007
The Real Economic Crisis
The Guardian Unlimited, October 14, 2007 (with John Schmitt)
The Entertainment Industry Police Crackdown
Truthout, October 8, 2007
AlterNet, October 16, 2007
From WMDs to Social Security: More Bush Stories
Truthout, October 1, 2007
Uninsured Kids Are Protecting Bush's Ego
Truthout, September 23, 2007
AlterNet, September 24, 2007
Stop Blaming the Boomers
AlterNet, September 20, 2007
Alan Greenspan and His Bubbles
Truthout, September 19, 2007
Cheap Advice on Real Estate
Truthout, September 17, 2007
The Housing Bubble Pops
The Nation, September 13, 2007
Recession Time! The Housing Bubble Bursts the Economy
Truthout, September 11, 2007
AlterNet, September 12, 2007
The Dirty Toilet Principle: The Fed and the Housing Bubble
Truthout, September 4, 2007
Gas Tax Equals Bridge Safety
BusinessWeek, September 4, 2007
Baker and Samwick: Save the Homeowners, Not the Hedgefunds
Providence Journal, August 31, 2007
The Right to Unionize: Key to Democracy
Truthout, August 27, 2007
AlterNet, August 27, 2007
Have the Hedge Fund Boys Killed Wall Street?
International Business Times, August 21, 2007
Save Subprime Borrowers, Not Bloated Bankers
Truthout, August 20, 2007
The Subprime Borrower Protection Plan
August 20, 2007
Welfare as We Know It Now
Truthout, August 13, 2007
CommonDreams.org, August 14, 2007
Economy Goes From Bad to Worse
Truthout, August 6, 2007
CommonDreams.org, August 7, 2007
Midsummer Market Meltdown: Is the End Near?
Truthout, July 30, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 31, 2007
Big Government Grover and the Fund Manager Subsidy
Truthout, July 23, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 24, 2007
The Fund Manager Tax Scam
International Business Times, July 18, 2007
Subsidies for Fund Managers: Wall Street's Giant Trough
Truthout, July 16, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 17, 2007
Kill the Private-Equity Tax Break
BusinessWeek, July 11, 2007 (Debate with Grover Norquist)
Fixing Health Care: Not Government vs. Market
Truthout, July 10, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 10, 2007
Globalization, Productivity, and "Protectionism": CEPR Responds To Foreign Affairs
(with Mark Weisbrot)
International Business Times, July 6, 2007
The RX from "Sicko:" More Choice
Truthout, July 2, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 3, 2007
Will Your House Do the NASDAQ Meltdown?
Truthout, June 27, 2007
Edwards Steps Forward on Prescription Drugs
Truthout, June 18, 2007
The Drug Industry Protectionists
International Business Times, June 11, 2007
Is Your Presidential Candidate Owned by Wall Street?
Truthout, June 11, 2007
Prescription Drugs: Where's the Free Market?
Truthout, June 4, 2007
Undoing Bush: The Economy
Harper's Magazine, June 2007
Human Rights at the Workplace
(with Mary Beth Maxwell)
Truthout, May 29, 2007
CommonDreams.org, May 30, 2007
The Peace Weenies Were Right
Truthout, May 21, 2007
Loser Liberalism Versus Power Populism
Truthout, May 14, 2007
CommonDreams.org, May 15, 2007
The Economic Costs of the Iraq War
Truthout, May 7, 2007
Fighting Poverty: The First Step Is Counting It
Truthout, April 30, 2007
America Since 1980: A Right Turn Leading to a Dead End
AlterNet, April 27, 2007
For the Sake of the Planet, Privatize Amtrak
Truthout, April 23, 2007
Containing CEO Pay: A Case of Government Efficiency
Truthout, April 17, 2007
The IMF: A Sandbox to Play In
Truthout, April 10, 2007
The Subprime Meltdown and the Ownership Society
WashingtonPost.com, April 7, 2007
Big Media Runs to the Nanny State
Truthout, April 3, 2007
Thailand Takes the Lead in Promoting Free Trade
The Hankyoreh (S. Korea), March 26, 2007
CommonDreams.org, March 28, 2007
Celebrating Waste: Praise for the Medicare Drug Benefit
Truthout, March 20, 2007
Productivity: Is the Boom Over?
In These Times, March 15, 2007
Safe Ground in a Housing Market Meltdown?
Truthout, March 14, 2007
The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst
Truthout, March 6, 2007
Small Government and the Medicare Drug Benefit
Truthout, February 27, 2007
Trade, Drugs and CEOs
Truthout, February 20, 2007
A Forward Looking Agenda for the Democrats
Challenge Magazine, February 2007
Edwards Steps Out Front on Health Care
Truthout, February 12, 2007
Bring Back the Old George W. Bush
CommonDreams.org, February 7, 2007
If Environmentalists Cared About Global Warming...
Truthout, January 29, 2007
The Social Security WMD Story
Truthout, January 23, 2007
Big Money, Small Money: The War and Student Loans
Truthout, January 18, 2007
Hooked on Drug Money: Will Congress Take a Stand on Medicare?
Truthout, January 10, 2007
Iraq War Lie Detector Test
Truthout, January 2, 2007
Drug Scandals Keep Flowing: Time for New Thinking
Truthout, December 20, 2006
A Peace Prize for Iraq: An Economist's Solution to War
Truthout, December 12, 2006
The Housing Crash Recession of 2007
Truthout, December 5, 2006
Will the Democrats Cut and Run on the Medicare Drug Bill?
Truthout, November 29, 2006
Free Trade Arithmetic for Progressives
Truthout, November 23, 2006
The High Dollar: President Clinton's Unaffordable Tax Cut
Truthout, November 15, 2006
Pushing a Progressive Agenda for the Democrats
Truthout, November 8, 2006
Social Security is on the Ballot Next Week
Truthout, October 31, 2006
After the Housing Bubble Bursts
Truthout, October 24, 2006
Are We Doing Good Yet?
Truthout, October 19, 2006
Fixing Medicare Drugs and attacking crimes
Sun-Sentinel (FL), October 19, 2006
Inequality Without Growth, Pain Without Gain
Truthout, October 10, 2006
Medicare: Why Are Conservatives Scared of Competition?
Truthout, September 27, 2006
Trade Agreements for the Future, Not the Past
The Hankyoreh (S. Korea), September 20, 2006
Deficit Hits New Record
Truthout, September 13, 2006
Globalization: It Didn't Just Happen
Truthout, August 31, 2006
Conservatives Love Government
Truthout, August 22, 2006
The Bursting of the Housing Bubble and the Coming Recession
Truthout, August 17, 2006
Can Clean Insurance Fend Off Global Warming?
Truthout, August 9, 2006
The Coming Housing Crash
TomPaine.com, July 31, 2006
A Korea-U.S. trade agreement: what is at stake?
The Hankyoreh (S. Korea), July 25, 2006
Stagnation Celebration
American Prospect, July 19, 2006
CBSNews.com, July 19, 2006
The WTO and the World's Poor
Truthout, July 12, 2006
Can Progressives Do Arithmetic?
Truthout, July 5, 2006
Prescription Drug Scams
Truthout, June 29, 2006
Wall Street Rules
Truthout, June 21, 2006
Fiction on the Social Security Trust Fund
Truthout, June 16, 2006
Rising Wages for Nurses? Nanny State to the Rescue
Truthout, May 24, 2006
More Hot Air Over the Arctic
Harper's Magazine, May 11, 2006
The Welfare Kings
TomPaine.com, May 10, 2006
The Menace of an Unchecked Housing Bubble
The Economists' Voice, March 30, 2006
Victory in the Medicare Drug War?
In These Times, March 21, 2006
Selling Un-Free Trade Agreements
The Hankyoreh (S. Korea), February 2006
Scoring a Drug Fix
TomPaine.com, January 5, 2006
Taxing the Oil Companies’ Hot Air
(Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot)
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 2, 2006
A Tax Cut Like It's 1986
TomPaine.com, December 5, 2005
Bush Drug Plan an Expensive, Complicated Turkey
Sacramento Bee, November 25, 2005
Is the Fed Overfed?
San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 2005
Baltimore Sun, October 28, 2005
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 14, 2005
Washington Times, November 22, 2005
Numbers before Politics
In These Times, April 26, 2005
The Numbers Racket
Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2005 Issue
Let's Be Honest about Social Security
Boston Globe, March 20, 2005 (with Mark Weisbrot)
"Why Did You Change Your Mind, Mr. Greenspan?"
Houston Chronicle, February 18, 2005
Bush's Numbers Racket
American Prospect, February 2005
Trouble at Home: The Housing Bubble
Demos-USA.org, January 11, 2005
What Crisis?
Washington Post, January 23, 2005
Bergen Record (NJ), January 30, 2005 (with Mark Weisbrot)
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Anti-Social Security
The Nation, December 27, 2004
TomPaine.com, December 13, 2004
Cutting Our Benefits: Bush Begins Second Term by Attacking Social Security
In These Times - December 6, 2004
The Social Security Crisis, Another White House Lie?
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, November 30, 2004
Cutting Social Security for Christians?
Topeka Capital Journal (KS) - November 19, 2004
Lawsuit and Language Abuse Week
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, October 27, 2004
Contra Costa Times (CA), January 30, 2005
Overcoming The Bubble Economy
TomPaine.com, October 12, 2004
Bush's House of Cards
The Nation, August 9, 2004
Old Enough to Take Responsibility
The Guardian, July 26, 2004 (with Mark Weisbrot)
Exercise Fiscal Responsibility
In These Times, July 14, 2004 (with Heather Boushey)
Spinning Out of Control: Making the Recession Look Good
Center for American Progress online, June 4, 2004 (with Heather Boushey)
The Housing Bubble: A Time Bomb in Low-Income Communities?
Shelterforce Online, Issue #135, May/June 2004
Building on the Bubble
Press Enterprise (CA), May 14, 2004
Duluth News-Tribune, May 17, 2004
Houston Chronicle, May 17, 2004
Miami Herald, May 22, 2004
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 23, 2004
The Pantagraph (IL), June 20, 2004
Another Intelligence Failure at the White House
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 12, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2004
Who to Blame When the Next Bubble Bursts
Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2003
Dodge City Daily Globe (KS), December 20, 2003
Tax-Cut/Prosperity Connection Pure Hooey
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1, 2003
Bursting Bubbles: Why the Economy Will Go from Bad to Worse
In These Times, May 9, 2003
A Haywire Patent System Picks Your Pocket at the Drugstore
Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2003
Not Very Stimulating: The Bush Tax Cut
Columbian (WA), January 10, 2003
And additional newspapers
No Cheap Wars
December 16, 2002
Taking one from the Bush team
(Dean Baker and Adria Scharf)
Dollars & Sense, Nov/Dec 2002
No Picnic: Working on Labor Day
(Dean Baker and Helene Jorgensen)
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 2, 2002
Wall Street and Welfare: The "W" Solution
July 15, 2002
First the Hype, Now the Pain; Market's Fall Was Both Predictable and Predicted
Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2002
Newsday (NY), June 30, 2002
The Times Union (NY), June 30, 2002
The Plain Dealer, June 30, 2002
Kansas City Star, July 1, 2002
Attack of the Clowns: The Real Bush is Back
Commondreams.org, May 23, 2002
Will Darth Vader Do Time? The Enron Saga Continues
Commondreams.org, May 8, 2002
Social Security Report Kept From Terrorists
The American Prospect online, March 27, 2002
Focus Group Economics
February 12, 2002
Lying on Top
January 22, 2002
Bush Commission: No Social Security Crisis
San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 2001
(With Mark Weisbrot)
The Social Security Sideshow
December 3, 2001
New Economy Takes a Dive
October 31, 2001
Dying for Patents
October 29, 2001
Patriots Take the Train
Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 21, 2001
Social Security's Real Problem - Trust Fund Theft
July 19, 2001
(With Mark Weisbrot)
The Trust Fund Raiders
Cleveland Plain-Dealer, July 19, 2001
The Liberal Establishment Was Wrong
June 11, 2001
Social Security Privatization - A Faith-Based Initiative?
May 29, 2001
Good Paying Jobs in the New Economy?
April 16, 2001
Hold On While I Sell
Miami Herald, March 26, 2001
(With Mark Weisbrot)
The Long Term Arithmetic of the Stock Market Bubble
March 13, 2001
(With Mark Weisbrot)
Liberals Step to Bush's Barren Beat
Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2001
How About Taxing Those Gamblers on Wall Street?
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7, 2001
Let the People Win the Election
Nov. 16, 2000
(With Mark Weisbrot)
Dot ComBustion
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 12, 2000
Social Security Needs Saving Only From the Politicians
Baltimore Sun, May 23, 2000
Social Security: Too Important to Leave to the Politicians
San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 2000
(With Mark Weisbrot)
Putting 'Secure' Back in Social Security
Washington Post, May 3, 2000
Here's One Way to Real Tax Freedom for Most
Houston Chronicle, May 3, 2000
Old Rules Catching Up With 'New Economy'
San Diego Tribune, April 18, 2000
You Call This a Crisis?
USA Today, April 10, 2000
False Poverty: The Nation Can't Afford To Care For Its Elderly
Aging Today, March/April 2000
The New Economy: A Millenial Myth
Dollars and Sense, March/April 2000
Social Security Scaremongering
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
Washington Post, December 13, 1999
The Real Drug Crisis
Dean Baker
In These Times, August 21, 1999
Shameful Moments in Economics I: The Social Security Debate
June 1999, Dean Baker
Bull Market Keynesianism
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, January/February 1999
Social Security Scaremongering
Washington Post, December 13, 1999
(With Mark Weisbrot)
The Real Drug Crisis
In These Times, August 21, 1999
Bull Market Keyensianism
The American Prospect, January/February 1999
