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Recent Op-Eds                                       

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


2007

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, Novemb
er 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


2006

 
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

 

2005 

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)
For a longer, original version of the article, click here.  

 

2004 

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

 

2003 

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

2002 

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

 

2001 

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

 

2000 

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

 

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

 
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