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

Why We Need a Financial Speculation Tax

Mark Weisbrot
Kansas City Star (KS), March 14, 2013
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, March 14, 2013
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), March 14, 2013
Bellingham Herald (WA), March 14, 2013
Eugene Register-Guard (OR), March 14, 2013
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), March 14, 2013
Bradenton Herald (FL), March 14, 2013
Anchorage Daily News (AK), March 14, 2013
Middletown Times Herald Record (NY), March 16, 2013
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), March 16, 2013
Wapakoneta Daily News (OH), March 16, 2013
Times of India, March 17, 2013
Willimantic Chronicle (CT), March 17, 2013
Lawton Constitution (OK), March 17, 2013
Kokomo Tribune (IN), March 17, 2013
Gainesville Times (GA), March 17, 2013
Rome News-Tribune (GA), March 17, 2013
Salt Lake City Deseret News (UT), March 17, 2013
Centre Daily Times (PA), March 18, 2013
Keene Sentinel (NH), March 18, 2013
White River Valley News (VT), March 18, 2013
Youngstown Vindicator (OH), March 19, 2013
The Epoch Times, March 21, 2013

We Need Job Creation, Not Talk of Debt-to-GDP Ratios

Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), February 20, 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 Fiscal Cliff Deal: Who Got Thrown Off?

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 1, 2013

Five Things We Can Do To Help Fix the Economy in 2013

Mark Weisbrot
Raleigh News & Observer (NC), December 27, 2012
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, December 27, 2012
Janesville Gazette (WI), December 27, 2012
Walworth County (WI), December 27, 2012
Boise Idaho Statesman (ID), December 27, 2012
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), December 27, 2012
Bellingham Herald (WA), December 27, 2012
Bradenton Herald (FL), December 27, 2012
Kansas City Star (KS), December 27, 2012
Juneau Empire (AK), December 28, 2012
Athens Banner-Herald (GA), December 28, 2012
Grand Forks Herald (ND), December 28, 2012
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI), December 28, 2012
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), December 29, 2012
Wapakoneta Daily News (OH), December 29, 2012
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX), December 29, 2012
Willimantic Chronicle (CT), December 30, 2012
Lawton Constitution (OK), December 30, 2012
Gainesville Times (GA), December 30, 2012
Kokomo Tribune (IN), December 30, 2012
Salt Lake City Deseret News (UT), December 30, 2012
Press of Atlantic City (NJ), January 2, 2012

The Serious People Are on the War Path

Dean Baker
Truthout, December 3, 2012

Deficit Reduction, Wall Street, and Whales

Dean Baker and Ted Boettner
The Charleston Gazette (WV), September 15, 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

Tiny Tax Would Make a Big Difference
Dean Baker
The New York Times (Room for Debate), August 7, 2012

Technology and Inequality: The Happy Myth
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 16, 2012

Wall Street Speculation Tax: A Way to Address Corruption
Dean Baker
Yahoo! Finance, July 9, 2012

A Wall Street Gambling Tax: The Remedy to Inequality
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 2, 2012

The Supercommittee Should Go Really Big and Turn Against the One Percent
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 21, 2011

The Spurious Case Against a Financial Transactions Tax
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, November 2, 2011

Supercommittee of the One Percent Won’t Even Think of Taxing Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 31, 2011

#OccupyWallStreet: The Real Tea Party
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), October 19, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Gets What the 'Very Serious People' Have Missed for 30 Years
John Schmitt
AlterNet, October 6, 2011

What Would Keynes Do? Get the Dollar Down
Dean Baker
The Nation, October 6, 2011

Why Don’t the Deficit Hawks Want to Tax Wall Street?
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 26, 2011

The Trick to Creating Middle Class Jobs: Stop Destroying Them
Dean Baker
Room for Debate (The New York Times), September 6, 2011

President Obama’s Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security but No Taxes for Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 18, 2011

Deficit Fever: Loon Tune Time Among the Elite
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, April 26, 2011

Robin Hood: A Tax Whose Time Has Come
Ha-Joon Chang and Duncan Green
The Guardian Unlimited, April 19, 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

Hugh Jidette and Hugh Janus Go to Washington
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 3, 2011

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

Sins of Commissions: What $1 Billion Can't Buy
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 22, 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

Economic Disaster, Krugman and Avishai, and Redefining "Small"
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, October 26, 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 Right Prescription for an Ailing Economy
Dean Baker
The Nation, June 30, 2010

Wall Street Congratulates Washington: A Job Well-Done
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 28, 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

This Isn’t Canada: Krugman on Too Big to Fail
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 7, 2010

Deficit Commissions and Financial Speculation Taxes: Who Is Serious?
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 5, 2010

Make Speculators Pay
Dean Baker
Forbes, February 25, 2010

Making the Banks Pay
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 18, 2010

Financial Transactions Taxes: Easy and Fun Money
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 14, 2009

Financial Transactions Taxes Must Come Before a National Sales Tax
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 9, 2009

Financial Transactions Tax: The Perfect Gift for Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 27, 2009

A Financial Sector Small Enough to Drown in a Bathtub
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), December 8, 2008