Dean Baker
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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
Dysfunctional Democracy in the United States
Dean Baker The Hankyoreh (South Korea), February 18, 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 U.S.-Korea Trade Deal: No Time Soon
Dean Baker The Hankyoreh (South Korea), 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) For a longer, original version of the article, click here.
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, Dec. 13, 1999
The Real Drug Crisis
Dean Baker In These Times, Aug. 21, 1999 Bull Market Keynesianism
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, Jan./Feb. 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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