Op-Eds & Columns
Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 15, 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
The Attack on Social Security and Disability: Profiting From Mistakes
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), April 4, 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
The Kids Will Be Rich, Unless Peter Peterson’s Kids Take Their Money
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 5, 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
Fix the Debt and a Wall Street Sales Tax
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, February 12, 2013
The 3 Percent Cut to Social Security, aka the Chained CPI
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 14, 2013
On Budget Cuts, the Political Gap Is Informational, Not Ideological
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), January 9, 2013
Who Said That Treasury Secretaries Have to Come From Wall Street? How About Paul Krugman?
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, January 5, 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
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
Supplemental Security—Let's Build on This Vital Support for Disabled Kids
Shawn Fremstad and Rebecca Vallas
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, December 19, 2012
The Bowles and Simpson Traveling Circus
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), December 12, 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
The Campaign to Fix the Debt and the Hair Club for Men
Dean Baker
Salon, November 1, 2012
Is President Obama Opting to Lose the Election?
Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), October 26, 2012
Americans Would Be Worse Off If Obama Were Defeated
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee (CA), October 25, 2012
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, October 25, 2012
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), October 25, 2012
Bellingham Herald (WA), October 25, 2012
Bradenton Herald (FL), October 25, 2012
Anchorage Daily News (AK), October 25, 2012
Providence Journal (RI), October 25, 2012
Idaho Statesmen (ID), October 25, 2012
Newsday (NY), October 26, 2012
Dallas Morning News (TX), October 26, 2012
Charlotte Observer (NC), October 26, 2012
Merced Sun-Star (CA), October 27, 2012
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), October 27, 2012
Wapakoneta Daily News (OH), October 27, 2012
The Gulf Today (Bahrain, UAE), October 27, 2012
Willimantic Chronicle (CT), October 28, 2012
Lawton Constitution (OK), October 28, 2012
Kokomo Tribune (IN), October 28, 2012
Gainesville Times (GA), October 28, 2012
Lima Daily News (OH), October 28, 2012
West Bend Daily News (WI), October 29, 2012
Waukesha Freeman (WI), October 29, 2012
Keene Sentinel (NH), October 29, 2012
Arizona Daily Star (AZ), October 29, 2012
The Economics of Social Security in the Presidential Race
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 24, 2012
En Español
Debate Was Gross But Still Showed Some Differences
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, October 23, 2012
The National Debt and Our Children: How Dumb Does Washington Think We Are?
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 15, 2012
Social Security: President Obama’s Biggest Failure in Last Week’s Debate
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 8, 2012
Does President Obama Want to Cut Social Security by 3 Percent?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 17, 2012
Deficit Reduction, Wall Street, and Whales
Dean Baker and Ted Boettner
The Charleston Gazette (WV), September 15, 2012
Moody’s Shows It Has Political Agenda for U.S. Fiscal Policy
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, September 13, 2012
The Erskine Bowles Stock Index and the S&P 500
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 10, 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
Beating Back the CEO Attack on Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 6, 2012
The CEO Plan to Steal Your Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout.org, July 30, 2012
The Dirt on Erskine Bowles: The Tame Half of Bowles-Simpson
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 9, 2012
Federal Government Can Restore Full Employment – If Only it Wanted to Do So
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee (CA), July 5, 2012
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, July 5, 2012
Bellingham Herald (WA), July 5, 2012
Bradenton Herald (FL), July 5, 2012
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), July 5, 2012
Janesville Gazette (WI), July 5, 2012
West Hawaii Today (HI), July 7, 2012
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), July 7, 2012
Tuscaloosa News (AL), July 8, 2012
Tampa Tribune (FL), July 8, 2012
Danbury News-Times (CT), July 8, 2012
Salt Lake City Deseret News (UT), July 8, 2012
Centre Daily Times (PA), July 9, 2012
Arizona Daily Star (AZ), July 9, 2012
West Nyack Journal (NY), July 9, 2012
White Plains Journal-News(NY), July 9, 2012
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA), July 21, 2012
Duluth News-Tribune (MN), August 31, 2012
A Wall Street Gambling Tax: The Remedy to Inequality
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 2, 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
Alan Simpson: The Washington Elite’s Attack Dog
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 4, 2012
Everyone Agrees That the Decline in Private-Sector Pay Has Been Understated
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 2, 2012
The War on Public Sector Workers
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 16, 2012
Obama and Romney are Politicians, not Visionaries
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 9, 2012
Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Bowles-Simpson Commission Report
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 5, 2012
Time Is On Our Side: The Survival of Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 16, 2012
Economists May Contribute to a “Lost Decade” for America
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, January 10, 2012
Protesters Reflect Vast Majority on 99 Percent of Most Major Issues
Mark Weisbrot
The Sacramento Bee (CA), December 1, 2011
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, December 1, 2011
Belleville News-Democrat (IL), December 1, 2011
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), December 1, 2011
Bellingham Herald (WA), December 1, 2011
Juneau Empire (AK), December 2, 2011
Northwest Arkansas Times (AR), December 2, 2011
Arkansas Democrat Gazette (AR), December 2, 2011
Hanford Sentinel (CA), December 2, 2011
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), December 3, 2011
Duluth News-Tribune (MN), December 3, 2011
Stockton Record (CA), December 3, 2011
Arizona Daily Sun (AZ), December 3, 2011
Modesto Bee (CA), December 3, 2011
Times of India, December 3, 2011
Lima News (OH), December 4, 2011
Belleville News-Democrat (IL), December 4, 2011
Lawton Constitution (OK), December 4, 2011
Anniston Star (AL), December 4, 2011
Centre Daily Times (PA), December 5, 2011
Arizona Daily Star (AZ), December 5, 2011
Palm Beach Post (FL), December 5, 2011
Keene Sentinel (NH), December 5, 2011
Youngstown Vindicator (OH), December 6, 2011
Chicago Tribune (IL), December 6, 2011
En Español
Time to Retake Politics from the One Percent in Both Political Parties
Dean Baker
Truthout, 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
The Myth of the Wealthy Elderly
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 14, 2011
The One Percent Turns Class War Into Generational War
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 7, 2011
Supercommittee of the One Percent Won’t Even Think of Taxing Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 31, 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
Santa Claus and the S&P Market Crash
Dean Baker
The New Republic, August 27, 2011
President Obama Discovers How Serious the Recession Is
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 29, 2011
Why Is President Obama So Anxious to Cut Social Security?
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 22, 2011
The S&P Downgrade Market Plunge Myth
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 15, 2011
Why We Aren't Like Greece
Dean Baker
The Nation, August 10, 2011
The Economic Illiterates Step Up the Attack on Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 8, 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
Economic Illiteracy: Blame the Teachers
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 11, 2011
Keep Social Security Safe from Politicians who Want to Save it
Dean Baker
The Des Moines Register, July 3, 2011
The Endgame on the Debt Ceiling
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 20, 2011
The Beatification of Senator Simpson
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 31, 2011
Peter Peterson and the Deficit Ostriches
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 23, 2011
The Good News and the Bad News in the Social Security Trustees' Report
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 16, 2011
Why Does Senator McCaskill Want to Bankrupt Our Children?
Dean Baker
Truthout, 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
Representative Ryan Makes a Clear Case
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 18, 2011
Paul Ryan in Your Pockets: Government by People Who Hate You
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 11, 2011
Representative Ryan's Valuable Service
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, 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 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
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
The Attack Against Social Security: The Power of Incompetence
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 22, 2011
The President as Storyteller-in-Chief
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 14, 2011
State Budget Cuts: Starting at the Top
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 7, 2011
Debts Should be Honored, Except When the Money is Owed to Working People
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 31, 2011
Peter Peterson’s Budget Ball
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 24, 2011
The Huffington Post, January 24, 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
Hugh Jidette and Hugh Janus Go to Washington
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 3, 2011
The Unkindest Cut of All
Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) and Eileen Appelbaum
The Hill, December 22, 2010
The Times of Trenton, December 28, 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
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
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
Don’t Touch Social Security: Drive for Cuts Based on Deception
Mark Weisbrot
The Sacramento Bee (CA), December 2, 2010
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, December 2, 2010
Tallahassee Democrat (FL), December 3, 2010
Colombus Dispatch (OH), December 3, 2010
Walworth County (WI), December 4, 2010
Lima News (OH), December 5, 2010
Rock Island Argus (IL), December 5, 2010
Moline Dispatch (IL), December 5, 2010
Charleston Gazette (WV), December 5, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle (CA), December 5, 2010
Bradenton Herald (FL), December 5, 2010
South Bend Tribune (IN), December 5, 2010
Arizona Daily Sun (AZ), December 5, 2010
Spartanburg Herald-Journal (SC), December 5, 2010
Middleton Press (CT), December 6, 2010
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), December 6, 2010
New Haven Register (CT), December 6, 2010
Centreville Daily Times (PA), December 6, 2010
Providence Journal (RI), December 6, 2010
Sioux Falls Argus Leader (SD), December 6, 2010
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA), December 6, 2010
Press of Atlantic City (NJ), December 7, 2010
Saratoga Herald-Tribune (FL), December 10, 2010
Eugene Register-Guard (OR), December 12, 2010
Fresno Bee (CA), December 12, 2010
Deficit Hawks: Substituting Money for Competence
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 29, 2010
Sins of Commissions: What $1 Billion Can't Buy
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 22, 2010
Compromise on Social Security and Medicare? Why My Center-Left Friends are Wrong
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, November 20, 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
Democrats Could Fare Even Worse Next Time If They Don’t Fix Economy
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, November 9, 2010
The Wall Street TARP Gang Wants to Take Away Your Social Security
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, November 9, 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
Why Growth Still Feels Like Recession
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 29, 2010
Economic Disaster, Krugman and Avishai, and Redefining "Small"
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, October 26, 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
French Protesters Have It Right: No Need to Raise Retirement Age
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, October 20, 2010
En Francais
The Social Security Pledge Versus the Old Politics
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 11, 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
Are The Politicians Stealing Your Social Security?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 27, 2010
Forced Busing, the Deficit Commission and Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 13, 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
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
Senator Simpson: He's Not Just Offensive, He's Ignorant
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, August 25, 2010
Social Security: The Republicans Are Right
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 23, 2010
The Public Pension Outrage and Alan Greenspan’s Pension
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 16, 2010
En Español
Economists: The Missing Heroes of the State and Local Government Pension Crisis
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, August 10, 2010
That Joke About Intergenerational Equity
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 10, 2010
The Budget Deficit Chicken Hawks
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 26, 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
Time to Put the Deficit Commission Out of Our Misery
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 6, 2010
Boehner Puts Democrats on the Spot
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, June 30, 2010
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
Overcoming the Debt Trap
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 7, 2010
The TARP and the Deficit Hawks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 1, 2010
Doing It for Our Children: Cutting Social Security and the BP Oil Spill
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, May 28, 2010
Family Friendly Cuts to Social Security: The Myth of Affluence Testing
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 17, 2010
Derailing the Wall Street Attack on Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 10, 2010
The New War on Social Security
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 12, 2010
The Folks Who Missed the Bubble Want Your Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 16, 2010
Does Congress Want to Default on the National Debt?
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 11, 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
Tobacco Lobbyists Join Wall Streeters On Debt Crusade
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 21, 2009
The Return of the TARP Hostage Takers
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, December 10, 2009
“Commission” is Washingtonspeak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 1, 2009
Hostage Takers in the Senate
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 16, 2009
Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, August 26, 2009
The Bankrupt Debate Over Bankrupting Our Children
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 11, 2009
Hands off Social Security
Dean Baker
USA Today Opinion Blog, April 7, 2009
The Granny Bashers: Different Facts, Same Policy
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 16, 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
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
Redefining Chutzpah: Wall Street Goes After Social Security, Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 12, 2009
Paper Wealth and the Economic Crisis
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, November 28, 2008
Libertarians and Corporate Power: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Dean Baker
CATO Unbound, November 17, 2008
After Four Decades, Finally: The Beginning of the End
Mark Weisbrot
Common Dreams, November 5, 2008
New Film on National Debt Focuses on Wrong Problem
Dean Baker and F. Scott McCown
The Houston Chronicle, October 31, 2008
The Deficit and Health Care Costs
Dean Baker and Murtaza H. Baxamusa
The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 31, 2008
Response to IOUSA Director Patrick Creadon
Dean Baker
October 29, 2008
Why Obama Has Pulled Ahead on the Economic Issues
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee (CA), October 23, 2008
Peter Peterson’s Bad Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 20, 2008
Slinging Mud to Hide the Real Dirt
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 15, 2008
John McCain Wants to Privatize Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 15, 2008
Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 21, 2008
McCain's "Knowledge Gap": It's An Issue
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, July 11, 2008
Media Needs to Take More Responsibility With Regard to False Information
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, March 12, 2008
Victories on the Left
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 3, 2007
The Crisis That Isn't
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 19, 2007
Bat Boy Lives! As Do Myths About Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, November 14, 2007
The Real Economic Crisis
Dean Baker and John Schmitt
The Guardian Unlimited, October 14, 2007
From WMDs to Social Security: More Bush Stories
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 1, 2007
Stop Blaming the Boomers
Dean Baker
AlterNet, September 20, 2007
The Peace Weenies Were Right
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 21, 2007
The Social Security WMD Story
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 23, 2007
Stagnation Celebration
Dean Baker
American Prospect, July 19, 2006
Fiction on the Social Security Fund
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 16, 2006
Scoring a Drug Fix
Dean Baker
TomPaine.com, January 5, 2006
Social Security: Another Media Failure
Mark Weisbrot
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, May 16, 2005
Numbers Before Politics
Dean Baker
In These Times, April 26, 2005
Owning Up to the "Ownership Society"
Mark Weisbrot
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 25, 2005
Let's Be Honest about Social Security
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
The Boston Globe, March 20, 2005
Show Me the Money
Mark Weisbrot
The Daily Herald, February 20, 2005
Why Did You Change Your Mind, Mr. Greenspan?
Dean Baker
Houston Chronicle, February 18, 2005
2018
Mark Weisbrot
Denver Post, February 7, 2005
Bush's Numbers Racket
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, February 2005
Social Security "Reform": A Solution in Search of a Problem
Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker
Washington Post, January 23, 2005
Social Security Deception Funded With Taxpayers' Dollars
Mark Weisbrot
Topeka Journal, January 23, 2005
Anti-Social Security
Dean Baker
The Nation, December 27, 2004
Economic Summit: Fiddling While Rome Burns
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Information Tribune Services, December 14, 2004
Who Wants to Cut Social Security Benefits?
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 2004
Cutting Our Benefits: Bush Begins Second Term by Attacking Social Security
Dean Baker
In These Times, December 6, 2004
The Social Security Crisis, Another White House Lie?
Dean Baker
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, November 30, 2004
Cutting Social Security for Christians?
Dean Baker
Topeka Capital Journal, November 19, 2004
Social Security: It's Not Broken, So Don't Fix It
Mark Weisbrot
Herald News (NJ), October 17, 2004
Social Security Doing Just Fine
Mark Weisbrot
Providence Journal, January 23, 2004
A Phony Crisis Met By Deception
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
Boston Globe, May 4, 2003
Still No Problem With Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
Sun Journal (ME), March 16, 2003
Social Security Report Kept From Terrorists
Dean Baker
The American Prospect Online, March 27, 2002
Focus Group Economics
Dean Baker
Feb. 12, 2002
Lying on Top
Dean Baker
January 22, 2002
Bush Commission: No Social Security Crisis
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 2001
The Social Security Sideshow
Dean Baker
Dec. 3, 2001
The World Bank's Attack on Social Security
Dean Baker
August 7, 2001
Social Security's Real Problem - Trust Fund Theft
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
July 19, 2001
The Trust Fund Raiders
Dean Baker
Cleveland Plain-Dealer, July 19, 2001
Lying About Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, June 18, 2001
The Liberal Establishment Was Wrong
Dean Baker
June 11, 2001
Social Security Privatization - A Faith-Based Initiative?
Dean Baker
May 29, 2001
Warning to Bush: Don't Mess With Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Feb. 27, 2001
New Year's Resolution for Congress
Mark Weisbrot
San-Diego Union Tribune, December 31, 2000
Post Election Bipartisanship Could Spell Trouble for Social Security, Medicare
Mark Weisbrot
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 24, 2000
Social Security Needs Saving Only From the Politicians
Dean Baker
Baltimore Sun, May 23, 2000
Social Security: Too Important to Leave to the Politicians
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 2000
Putting 'Secure' Back in Social Security
Dean Baker
Washington Post, May 3, 2000
You Call This a Crisis?
Dean Baker
USA Today, Apil 10, 2000
Finally, A Reform Proposal for Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, April 6, 2000
False Poverty: The Nation Can't Afford To Care For Its Elderly
Dean Baker
Aging Today, March/April 2000
Budget Baloney
Mark Weisbrot
Dollars and Sense, February 2000
King's Dream: Still Distant
Mark Weisbrot
Boston Globe, January 17, 2000
Social Security Scaremongering
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
Washington Post, December 13, 1999
Social Security: The Political Football
Mark Weisbrot
Ventura County Star (CA), November 17, 1999
What Everyone Should Know About the Budget Debate
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, August 11, 1999
More Tax Cuts for Those Who Need It Least
Mark Weisbrot
Houston Chronicle, July 28, 1999
Social Security: Can the Trustees Be Trusted?
Mark Weisbrot
El Paso Times (TX), May 22, 1999
The President's New Legacy - Keeping It Honest
Mark Weisbrot
Los Angeles Daily News, February 1, 1999
The State of Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, January 22, 1999
Saving Social Security - from the "Reformers"
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, January 15, 1999
Social Security: The Truth Emerges (Slowly)
Mark Weisbrot
The Washington Times, December 21, 1998
Elections Bury the Truth About Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
Washington Times, November 3, 1998
The White House Scandal: Look on the Bright Side
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, August 18, 1998
We Can't Fix What Aint Broken
Mark Weisbrot
San Francisco Chronicle, August 6, 1998
Baah, Ram, Ewe: Sheep Take the Lead on Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
Sunday Journal, May 19, 1998
Paycheck Deception
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, May 1998
Saving Social Security From Those Who Want to "Fix" It
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 27, 1998
Why No One Needs to Worry About Social Security or the National Debt
Mark Weisbrot
San Diego Union-Tribune, January 21, 1998
Social Security: The Phony Crisis
Mark Weisbrot
Portland Oregonian, April 26, 1997
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