Dean Baker
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The Failures of TARP
November 18, 2009 Falling Rental Prices Continue to Restrain Inflation
November 18, 2009 Housing Market Trails Off With Expiration of First Homebuyer Tax Credit
November 17, 2009 An Unemployment Solution: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours
November 17, 2009 The Financial Crisis: A Failure of Regulators, Not Regulations
November 16, 2009 Obama's 'Nuclear Option' on China's Yuan
November 16, 2009 Issues in Trade and Protectionism
November 16, 2009 Hostage Takers in the Senate
November 16, 2009 Breaking up the Banks, Like Renegotiating NAFTA?
November 10, 2009 Massive Defense Spending Leads to Job Loss
November 09, 2009 Financial Transactions Taxes Must Come Before a National Sales Tax
November 09, 2009 The Homebuyers Tax Credit and Free Market Fundamentalism
November 09, 2009 Unemployment Hits 10.2 Percent, Economy Sheds 190,000 Jobs
November 06, 2009 Statement on Fannie Mae's Deed for Lease Program
November 05, 2009 Tax Credit Leads to Burst in Sales in September
November 04, 2009 Financial Reform: Don’t Touch the Banks, Get a Smarter Fed
November 02, 2009 Stimulus and Jobs: We Can Do Better
November 02, 2009 Cash for Clunkers Drives 3rd Quarter GDP Growth
October 29, 2009 Government Price Supports Create Mini-Bubble
October 28, 2009 The American Bankers Association's 15 Minutes of Fame in Chicago
October 26, 2009 Why Do Bankers Need to Be Paid 1000 Times as Much as Firefighters?
October 26, 2009 People Power Matters: The Public Option Lives!
October 26, 2009 Housing Starts/Permits Flatten in September
October 21, 2009 Insurers Argue for Public Option
October 19, 2009 Does Citigroup Need China?
October 19, 2009 The Silliest Form of Stimulus: Homebuyer's Tax Credit by a Mile
October 17, 2009 Won’t You Please Come to Chicago, No One Else Can Take Your Place
October 13, 2009 Trade in Health Care: When “Free Traders” Become Protectionists
October 13, 2009 The Country Has Sustained Much Greater Debt Burdens in the Past
October 09, 2009 Our Health Care System is Broken
October 09, 2009 Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment
October 09, 2009 Debunking the Dumping-the-Dollar Conspiracy
October 08, 2009 Washington Must Do More to Put Unemployed Americans Back to Work
October 08, 2009 Mortgage Applications Surge as Homebuyers Seek to Benefit from Tax Credit
October 07, 2009 Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid
October 06, 2009 Unemployment is Up, But Bernanke Saved the Banks
October 05, 2009 The Recovery: Can You Feel It Yet?
October 05, 2009 Decreased Jobs and Hours Push Economy Back to 1997 Hours Level
October 02, 2009 The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy
September 30, 2009 Prices Show Sharp Divergence in Latest Case-Shiller Data
September 30, 2009 Medicare Buy-in: What’s Wrong With Giving People a Choice?
September 28, 2009 Progressives and the Budget Deficit
September 28, 2009 Government-Backed Mortgages at Record High
September 23, 2009 Can the Townhallers Be Left, Rather Than Left Behind?
September 21, 2009 The Rally Against Obamacare for the Banks
September 21, 2009 Near Record Pace of Foreclosure Suggests Further Price Declines Ahead
September 16, 2009 Higher Energy Prices Push CPI Up 0.4 Percent In August
September 16, 2009 The Public Plan Option and the Big Government Conservatives
September 14, 2009 Short Sellers: The Unsung Heroes of the Financial Crisis
September 14, 2009 Big Deficit Bob Rubin and the Strong Dollar
September 08, 2009 Ben Bernanke’s Bad Memory
September 08, 2009 Job Situation May Be Improving
September 04, 2009 Unemployment Jumps to 9.7 Percent, as Economy Loses Another 216,000 Jobs
September 04, 2009 Surge in Sales in West Leads to Rise in Pending Home Sales in July
September 02, 2009 Irresponsibly Following the Congressional Budget Office
August 31, 2009 Bank Profits Are Up: Did You Hear Anyone Say “Thank You”?
August 31, 2009 Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security
August 26, 2009 Sales and Inventories Jump in July
August 26, 2009 CBO Warns of Higher Unemployment: Washington Worries About the Deficit
August 25, 2009 CBO Projects More Severe Downturn
August 25, 2009 GreenspanFest ’09 and the Reappointment of Ben Bernanke
August 24, 2009 Owning Versus Renting
August 24, 2009 Housing Starts Drift Downward in July
August 19, 2009 Goldman Sachs: The Golden Diaper Brigade
August 17, 2009 Are Mandates Mandatory?
August 17, 2009 Housing Glut Pushes Rental Inflation to Record Lows
August 14, 2009 Housing Glut Pushes Rental Inflation to Record Lows
August 14, 2009 Saving Homes With a 'Right to Rent'
August 12, 2009 Little Evidence of Upward Trend in Housing
August 12, 2009 The Case for No Stimulus
August 10, 2009 Governor Palin’s Crazed Health Care Rant: Blame the Washington Post
August 10, 2009 Pace of Job Loss Slows Sharply, as Unemployment Edges Down
August 07, 2009 Promises to the Drug Industry: Like Renegotiating NAFTA?
August 07, 2009 Ben Bernanke’s Reappointment Campaign
August 03, 2009 Stimulus Works, Give Us More!
August 03, 2009 The U.S.-Korea Trade Deal: No Time Soon
August 03, 2009 The Doctor is in . . . Bangkok
August 02, 2009 Are We Better off Because of the Stimulus?
July 31, 2009 Government Spending Supports GDP Growth in 2nd Quarter
July 31, 2009 In Spite of Uptick, Housing Market Faces Further Declines
July 29, 2009 Right to Rent: The Remedy to the Foreclosure Crisis
July 27, 2009 Good Medicine: Why Not for Everyone?
July 27, 2009 Right to Rent: Helping the Market to Find a Bottom
July 22, 2009 Right to Rent: A Non-Bureaucratic Solution to the Foreclosure Crisis
July 20, 2009 Taxing Health Insurance Premiums and Subsidizing Health Care Providers
July 20, 2009 Séance on Wall Street
July 20, 2009 The Right to Rent Plan
July 16, 2009 More Stimulus, Please
July 16, 2009 It’s Not Rationing, Stupid!
July 14, 2009 Stimulus Arithmetic
July 14, 2009 Another 0 Million in AIG Bonuses: Why Don't We Take Our Chances?
July 14, 2009 The Washington Post (a.k.a. Fox on 15th Street) Wants 15 Million People to Be Unemployed
July 12, 2009 Mortgage Applications Suggest No Uptick in Housing
July 08, 2009 The Green Shoots Are Dead: We Need a Third Stimulus
July 06, 2009 Life, Liberty, and Employer-Provided Health Insurance
July 06, 2009 Economy Loses 467,000 Jobs In June, Unemployment Edges Up to 9.5 Percent
July 02, 2009 Pecora Commission II: Super-Sleuths or Keystone Cops?
July 01, 2009 NPR, the IMF, and the Global Savings Glut
June 30, 2009 The Global Warming Lie Detector
June 29, 2009 Making Financial Regulation Work: A Systemic Risk Regulator
June 23, 2009 Fire Failed Regulators: The Best Regulatory Reform
June 22, 2009 Spreading the Wealth Around to the Insurance Industry & Friends
June 22, 2009 Mixed Signals on Housing Market
June 17, 2009 Barack Obama Vs. Harry and Louise
June 15, 2009 Obama Plan Improves Regulatory Structure but Doesn’t Address Accountability
June 15, 2009 Investigating the Collapse: Looking for the Killer We Already Know
June 02, 2009 GM Bailout Makes Most Out of Bad Situation
June 02, 2009 Reporters in Pom Poms: Cheerleading the Recovery
June 02, 2009 To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator, Fire Bernanke
June 01, 2009 Blue Cross Millionaires Are Scared to Compete With a Public Plan
May 25, 2009 Waterboard the Fed?
May 25, 2009 Call It Friendly Intervention
May 21, 2009 False Starts? Construction Dips Again in April
May 20, 2009 Insolvency of the U.S. Banking System
May 19, 2009 Was This Bailout Necessary?
May 18, 2009 The Health Care Industry: Protectionism the Free Traders Love
May 18, 2009 Core CPI Increases by 0.3 Percent in April
May 15, 2009 Still No Green Shoots in Housing
May 13, 2009 Health Care and Student Loans: The Bad Guys Are on the Run
May 11, 2009 The Bankrupt Debate Over Bankrupting Our Children
May 11, 2009 The Banks Are Alright; Time to End the Bailouts
May 11, 2009 Combating Wage Theft
May 11, 2009 Rate of Job Loss Slows Moderately, Unemployment Rate Rises to 8.9 Percent
May 08, 2009 The Quest for Good News in a Housing Crash
May 06, 2009 Systematic Risk Regulators and the Power of Arithmetic
May 04, 2009 Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler
May 04, 2009 Let's Make PPIP Fun!
May 01, 2009 The Obama Administration and the Bankers: 100 Days of Solicitude
April 29, 2009 House Prices Continue to Drop at More Than a 20 Percent Annual Rate
April 29, 2009 Can Health Insurers Whine Louder Than Bankers?
April 27, 2009 Financial Transactions Tax: The Perfect Gift for Wall Street
April 27, 2009 Malpractice
April 22, 2009 Foreclosures and Sales: Beware of False Bottoms
April 22, 2009 Why Does the Fed Operate in the Dark?
April 21, 2009 The Wall Street Whine: Goldman Sachs Edition
April 21, 2009 The Tyranny of Bad Economics
April 21, 2009 Falling Energy Prices Push CPI Lower in March
April 15, 2009 House Prices and the Troubled Assets of Banks
April 15, 2009 The Need to Tax the Wealthy
April 14, 2009 If the Bank Bailout Fails, Will Anyone Get the Boot?
April 13, 2009 False Hope in a Plunging Economy
April 13, 2009 If Economists Knew Arithmetic, We Might Waste Less Money on Banks
April 11, 2009 Increase in Mortgage Applications Could Indicate Uptick in Demand
April 08, 2009 Hands off Social Security
April 07, 2009 A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?
April 06, 2009 How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions?
April 04, 2009 Unemployment Jumps to 8.5 Percent, Economy Sheds 663,000 Jobs
April 03, 2009 G-20: Why support the IMF?
April 02, 2009 Europe's Leaders Must Say "Stimulus"
April 02, 2009 Obama's Restructuring of the Auto Industry
April 02, 2009 Case-Shiller Data Destroy Housing Turnaround Story
April 01, 2009 Geithner’s Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer
March 30, 2009 China’s Empty Threat
March 30, 2009 Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off
March 30, 2009 A Stimulus for Working Fewer Hours
March 29, 2009 Budget Deficits and Blow Up Dolls: It's the Economy Stupid!
March 25, 2009 Is a Bottom In Sight?
March 25, 2009 The Geithner Plan: Billions More for Failed Banks
March 23, 2009 The Battle Over the AIG Bonuses: Class War in the Media
March 23, 2009 More Federal Stimulus Funds Will Be Needed
March 22, 2009 The AIG Saga: A Brief Primer
March 20, 2009 The Foreclosure Crisis and President Obama’s Making Home Affordable Program
March 19, 2009 Inflation Stays Moderate in February
March 18, 2009 February Uptick in Housing Starts: Have We Hit Bottom?
March 18, 2009 The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus
March 16, 2009 The Granny Bashers: Different Facts, Same Policy
March 16, 2009 Getting Lehman Wrong a Second Time
March 16, 2009 Unions and Unemployment: The Battle Over the Employee Free Choice Act Gets Ugly
March 13, 2009 Our Economy Fails Without Manufacturing
March 12, 2009 Hidden Inventories Will Haunt Housing Upturn
March 11, 2009 We Demand to See More Transparency
March 10, 2009 Competing Views of Government: Universal Medicare or Government-Protected Insurance Companies
March 09, 2009 East Asia's Revenge: The Crash of the Housing Bubble
March 09, 2009 Unemployment Jumps to 8.1 Percent as Job Loss Accelerates
March 06, 2009 Are House Prices in a Free Fall?
March 04, 2009 Evaluating TARP and Its Impact on the Broader Economy
March 04, 2009 The Santelli Screed Hits Wrong Target on Mortgage Bailout
March 03, 2009 Are We Really Nostalgic for the Great Depression?
March 02, 2009 Housing Price Decline Accelerates
February 25, 2009 The Impact of the Current Economic Crisis on the Elderly
February 25, 2009 The Problems of the Current System of Retirement Income
February 24, 2009 The Solution to the Budget Deficit
February 23, 2009 The Peter G. Peterson Crew Is Coming After Your Social Security and Medicare
February 23, 2009 Inflation Returns in January as Both Consumer and Producer Prices Rise
February 20, 2009 Housing Starts Plunge In January
February 18, 2009 Quick, What's Wrong With a Tax Cut that Shortens Work Hours?
February 17, 2009 Stop Baby Boomer Bashing: Protect Social Security and Medicare
February 17, 2009 Stimulus II: Reaffirm Support for Social Security
February 17, 2009 The Economists Who Missed the Housing Bubble Are Coming After Your Social Security
February 13, 2009 The TARP Dog and Pony Show
February 11, 2009 Record Vacancy Rates Show Market Will Remain Weak
February 11, 2009 Fewer Jobs: Stimulus on the Cheap
February 09, 2009 New Thinking on the Economy
February 09, 2009 Employment Free Fall Continues, Unemployment Rate Jumps to 7.6 Percent
February 06, 2009 Buy America and the Knee-Jerk "Free Trade" Crowd
February 05, 2009 Jumps in South and Midwest Boost Pending Home Sales Index in December
February 04, 2009 Fannie Mae’s Overpaid Board: Can President Obama Turn Words Into Action?
February 02, 2009 Time for Bank Rationalization
February 02, 2009 Plunging Car Sales Lead Fourth Quarter GDP Drop
January 30, 2009 Pass the Stimulus - Then Help Shorten the Work Week
January 29, 2009 House Prices Enter Free Fall
January 27, 2009 The Banks Have Stolen Enough; It's Time to Take Them Over
January 27, 2009 The Anti-Stimulus Crowd Blows a Gasket
January 26, 2009 Time for Jobs: How Shorter Work Weeks / Work Years Can Be Stimulus
January 26, 2009 Stimulus Bashing and the Secret CBO Report
January 23, 2009 President Obama’s Big Stimulus
January 21, 2009 Foreclosure Filings Surge in December
January 21, 2009 TARP II: Money for Banks, Not Homeowners
January 19, 2009 Helping Homeowners Without Helping Banks: The Economist's Solution
January 18, 2009 CPI Falls 0.7 Percent in December, Up 0.1 Percent for Year
January 16, 2009 Plans to "Help" Homeowners Send Checks to Banks
January 14, 2009 Give Money to Homeowners, Not Banks
January 13, 2009 Yes, We Can Make the Stimulus More Stimulating
January 13, 2009 Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise?
January 13, 2009 Economy Loses 524,000 Jobs in December, Unemployment Rate Hits 7.2 Percent
January 09, 2009 Pending Home Sales Plunge in November
January 07, 2009 Pssst, the Economy Is Collapsing, Don't Tell Congress
January 05, 2009 Watch the Dollar
January 05, 2009 The Highway to Hell: Bad Infrastructure
January 05, 2009 The Anti-Stimulus Crowd: The Fear of Success
January 05, 2009 Free Market Myth
January 05, 2009
Challenging Group Thinking Economists on Budget Deficits and the Dollar
Talking Points Memo, December 28, 2008
Part-Time Government Employees Earn $160,000 a Year
Talking Points Memo, December 25, 2008
Sex and Money: Are Women Regulators Different?
Truthout, December 22, 2008
Wages Soar as Stock Market Tanks
The Guardian Unlimited, December 22, 2008
Washington Post: The Problem is YOU, Not "We"
Talking Points Memo, December 21, 2008
Homeownership Without Equity: What's It Worth?
Truthout, December 15, 2008
The Ownership Society: R.I.P.
The Guardian Unlimited, December 15, 2008
If G.M. Were a Canadian Company, It Wouldn't be Asking for Help
Talking Points Memo, December 11, 2008
Obama Has the Right Medicine
The Guardian Unlimited, December 8, 2008
Question for Economic Experts: Can You Say “Housing Bubble"?
Truthout, December 8, 2008
A Financial Sector Small Enough to Drown in a Bathtub
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), December 8, 2008
The Banking Industry Wants To Help YOU!!!
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), December 3, 2008
IOUSA: Failed Scare Flick of the Decade
The Guardian Unlimited, December 1, 2008
Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around
Truthout, December 1, 2008
Paper Wealth and the Economic Crisis
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 28, 2008
Why Does Robert Rubin Still Have a Job?
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 25, 2008
The Bear is Cool: Overcoming Fears of Falling Stock Prices
Truthout, November 24, 2008
Geithner at Treasury: Can He Learn?
The Guardian Unlimited, November 24, 2008
Will Henry Paulson Sink Detroit?
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 20, 2008
The Stock Market, the Government Just Needs to Spend Money
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 20, 2008
Stopping Foreclosures With the Right to Rent: One More Time
Truthout, November 17, 2008
Health Care as Stimulus: The Best Way to Spend Big Bucks
The Guardian Unlimited, November 17, 2008
Libertarians and Corporate Power: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
CATO Unbound, November 17, 2008
Henry Paulson Takes Down the TARP: Sort Of
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 16, 2008
The Obama Economic Team: Clinton Retreads?
The Guardian Unlimited, November 10, 2008
The G-20 and Biological Warfare
Truthout, November 10, 2008
The Next Treasury Secretary: What's Their Track Record?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 6, 2008
President Obama's Path to Greatness: Health Care As Stimulus
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 4, 2008
Getting to the Root of a Horror Story
The Oregonian, October 31, 2008
New Film on National Debt Focuses on Wrong Problem
The Houston Chronicle: October 31, 2008
Response to IOUSA Director Patrick Creadon
October 29, 2008
Bill O'Reilly is Responsible for the Housing Bubble/Crash
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 29, 2008
Greenspan Says “Who Could Have Known?”
Truthout, October 27, 2008
Ripping Off European Investors: The Great American Pastime
The Guardian Unlimited, October 27, 2008
Post Only Supports Bailouts for Robert Rubin, Not Autoworkers
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 27, 2008
Free Market Ideology Melts Down
International Relations and Security Network, October 27, 2008
Can We Stop "Spreading the Wealth Around"?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 25, 2008
Greenspan Follies: The World Is as Ayn Rand Would Have Predicted
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 23, 2008
Still A Boys' Club at Treasury: Where Is Sheila Bair?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 21, 2008
Redistribution: From Joe the Plumber to Robert Rubin
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 20, 2008
Peter Peterson’s Bad Economics
The Guardian Unlimited, October 20, 2008
Any Pay Cuts on Wall Street Yet?
Truthout, October 20, 2008
Generous Henry's Big Bailout
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 14, 2008
Are You Better Off? Reagan vs. Carter, and Obama vs. McCain
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo) (with John Schmitt), October 14, 2008
The Return of Great Depression Economics
The Guardian Unlimited, October 13, 2008
The Fannie/Freddie Flat Earth Theory
Truthout, October 13, 2008
Bailout Scorecard: Ignorant Masses 1, Elites 0
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 12, 2008
Statement on the Need for Coordinated Stimulus
October 10, 2008 (with Mark Weisbrot)
We Need to Drive a Stake into the Heart of Conservatism
TPM Café Book Club (Talking Points Memo), October 6, 2008
Wall Street Follows the Path of the Steel Industry in Pittsburgh
Truthout, October 6, 2008
Step One: Deflate the Housing Bubble
The Guardian Unlimited, October 6, 2008
Post Claims Paulson Misled Bush on Bailout
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 6, 2008
Stock Market Closes Below Monday Low: Come On Let's Have Some Hysteria!
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 3, 2008
Statement on Congressional Approval of Bailout
October 3, 2008
Letting the Bank Robber Fix the Bank's Books
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 3, 2008
Responsibility and the Bailout: Will They Resign If It Fails?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 2, 2008
The Credit Squeeze Scare
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 1, 2008
The Bailout Round II: Adult Version?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 29, 2008
Why Bail? The Banks Have a Gun Pointed at Their Head and Are Threatening to Pull the Trigger
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 29, 2008
The Bailout: Congress Endorses Conservative Nanny State
The Guardian Unlimited, September 29, 2008
Bailing on the Bailout, or Is It Too Big to Bail?
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 26, 2008
No Bailout: Stop Rewarding Incompetence
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 25, 2008
The Washington Post and Peter Peterson: Two More Reasons to Oppose This Bailout
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 25, 2008
Wall Street Free Traders Become Wall Street Protectionists
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 23, 2008
No Blank Cheque for Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, September 22, 2008
Progressive Conditions for a Bailout
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 20, 2008
The Financial Meltdown Continues
September 19, 2008
A Reckoning with Wall Street
The Washington Times, September 18, 2008
Big Banks Go Bust: Time to Reform Wall Street
Blog for Our Future (Campaign for America's Future), September 15, 2008
John McCain Wants to Privatize Social Security
Truthout, September 15, 2008
Slinging Mud to Hide the Real Dirt
The Guardian Unlimited, September 15, 2008
Freddie's Dead
The Guardian Unlimited, September 8, 2008
The Whiners' Recession
Truthout, September 8, 2008
Statement on the Conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
September 8, 2008
John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet, II
The Guardian Unlimited, September 1, 2008
The Truth About Social Security
The Guardian Unlimited, August 25, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 19
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, August 21, 2008
Swift Boat Economics
Truthout, August 18, 2008
When You're in Jackson Hole, Stop Digging
The Guardian Unlimited, August 18, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 18
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, August 14, 2008
Let's Get Down to Gas Tax
The Guardian Unlimited, August 11, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 17
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, August 8, 2008
How Economic Ideas Make It Into the Mainstream
The Guardian Unlimited, August 4, 2008
The Compromise "Drill Anywhere" Plan
Truthout, August 4, 2008
Getting More For Less: The Not-So-Obvious Benefits of Publicly Funded Trials for New Drugs
Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter (July) 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 16
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, July 31, 2008
After the Housing Bill: Time to Address Foreclosures
Truthout, July 28, 2008
Fannie, Freddie and Minimum Wage
The Guardian Unlimited, July 28, 2008
The Recession in the United States: A Progress Report
The Hankyoreh (South Korea), July 1, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 15
TAP (The American Prospect), July 24, 2008
Paying for Fannie and Freddie's Mistakes
The Guardian Unlimited, July 21, 2008
Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
Truthout, July 21, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 14
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, July 17, 2008
A Tax Plan By Any Other Name
The Guardian Unlimited, July 14, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 13
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, July 10, 2008
A Cloudy Forecast for the US Economy
The Guardian Unlimited, July 7, 2008
Free Trade, Why "Free" Matters
Truthout, July 7, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 12
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, July 3, 2008
The Recession in the United States: A Progress Report
The Hankyoreh (South Korea), July 1, 2008
Help Workers, Not Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, June 30, 2008
Barack Care Versus John Care: Health Care Under the Next President
Truthout, June 30, 2008
AlterNet, July 11, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 11
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, June 27, 2008
Bloodletting on Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, June 23, 2008
John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet
Truthout, June 23, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 10
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, June 19, 2008
Insurance Fraud
The Guardian Unlimited, June 16, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 9
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, June 12, 2008
Big Pharma's Ransom Note
The Guardian Unlimited, June 2, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 8
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 29, 2008
Green Stimulus: Let's Try Again
Truthout, May 27, 2008
Bad Times in W.Va.: Can the Next President Help?
With Ted Boettner
Charleston Gazette (WV), May 25, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 7
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 22, 2008
Reverse Robin Hood
The Guardian Unlimited, May 20, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 6
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 15, 2008
What a New President Could Do for Oregon
With Charles Sheketoff
The Oregonian, May 15, 2008
Wrong Then, Wrong Again
The Guardian Unlimited, May 12, 2008
Universal Health Care or John Care
Truthout, May 12, 2008
Three Things that Won't Help the Foreclosure Crisis
With Liz Chimienti
Truthout, May 8, 2008
AlterNet, May 15, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 5
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 8, 2008
Return of the Granny Bashers
The Guardian Unlimited, May 5, 2008
Foreign Investment and the Recession in the United States
The Hankyoreh (South Korea), May 5, 2008
Coming up Short in North Carolina
With John Quinterno
News and Observer (NC), May 2, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 4
TAP Online (The American Prospect), May 1, 2008
Asleep at the Wheel
The Guardian Unlimited, April 28, 2008
Developing the New "Capitalists' Man"
Truthout, April 28, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 3
TAP Online (The American Prospect), April 24, 2008
The Homeownership Ideology
The Guardian Unlimited, April 21, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 2
TAP Online (The American Prospect), April 17, 2008
Sanctity of Contracts: Mortgages and Credit Cards
Truthout, April 14, 2008
Declaring Class War
The Guardian Unlimited, April 14, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 1
TAP Online (The American Prospect), April 10, 2008
The Foreclosure Prevention Act (a.k.a. the Bank and Builder Bailout Act)
Truthout, April 7, 2008
AlterNet, April 10, 2008
The Tip of the Iceberg
The Guardian Unlimited, April 7, 2008
Unions: Ensuring Social Justice for African Americans
AFL-CIO Point of View, April 2, 2008 (with John Schmitt)
The Welfare King of the 21st Century
Truthout, March 31, 2008
Someone Has to Pay
The Guardian Unlimited, March 31, 2008
Exit, Pursued By Bear Stearns
The Guardian Unlimited, March 24, 2008
The Housing Crash Recession: How Did We Get Here?
NOW (PBS), March 21, 2008
Fed Up with Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, March 18, 2008
The War at Home
The Guardian Unlimited, March 10, 2008
What Will President Obama Do?
de Volkskrant (Netherlands), March 8, 2008
The Hidden Homeowner Tax
The Guardian Unlimited, March 3, 2008
CommonDreams.org, March 4, 2008
Is Bush to Blame for the Economy?
The American Prospect (web only), February 25, 2008
AlterNet, March 4, 2008
Raising Taxes to Bail Out Robert Rubin
Truthout, February 25, 2008
AlterNet, February 26, 2008
Thrifty Thinking
The Guardian Unlimited, February 25, 2008
Does Ben Bernanke Have to Go?
Truthout, February 18, 2008
CommonDreams.org, February 20, 2008
Kicking the Habit
The Guardian Unlimited, February 18, 2008
Own to Rent? Yes We Can!
Oregon Independent, February 14, 2008
Help for the Homeless
The Guardian Unlimited, February 11, 2008
The Economic Hit from the War in Iraq
Newsday, February 10, 2008
The Recession and the Freedom to Organize
Point of View (AFL-CIO), February 6, 2008
These Loans Were Made for Walking: The End of the Subprime Crisis
Truthout, February 4, 2008
CommonDreams.org, February 5, 2008
The US Economy, Pravda Style
The Guardian Unlimited, January 28, 2008
Ben Bernanke: Supernanny?
Truthout, January 28, 2008
AlterNet, January 29, 2008
CommonDreams.org, January 29, 2008
Stimulating Politics
The Guardian Unlimited, January 21, 2008
A Green Lining
The Guardian Unlimited, January 14, 2008
Truthout, January 14, 2008
Organic Consumers Association, January 14, 2008
AlterNet, January 17, 2008
Year of the Fat Cats
The Guardian Unlimited, January 7, 2008
Insurers Whack Elderly to Celebrate New Year
Truthout, January 7, 2008
The Cost of Living
The Guardian Unlimited, January 1, 2008
CommonDreams.org, January 2, 2008
Edwards Comes Out on Top on the Economy
Truthout, December 24, 2007
CommonDreams.org, December 24, 2007
AlterNet, December 26, 2007
Santa Claus Comes to Wall Street
Truthout, December 24, 2007
AlterNet, December 24, 2007
Creative Thinking
The Guardian Unlimited, December 17, 2007
Alan Greenspan: The Boy in the Bubble
Truthout, December 17, 2007
AlterNet, December 20, 2007
Bubble Trouble
The Guardian Unlimited, December 10, 2007
CommonDreams.org, December 11, 2007
Free Trade for Wall Street
The Guardian Unlimited, December 3, 2007
Victories on the Left
Truthout, December 3, 2007
Stealing Christmas
The Guardian Unlimited, November 26, 2007
It Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Flexible Hours on the Job
Truthout, November 26, 2007
The Crisis That Isn't
The Guardian Unlimited, November 19, 2007
The Social Security Scare Squad: Reason to Hate the Media #567,945
Truthout, November 19, 2007
Outsourcing Healthcare
The Guardian Unlimited, November 12, 2007
AlterNet, November 12, 2007
CommonDreams.org, November 13, 2007
Homeownership: The Fast Path to Poverty
Truthout, November 12, 2007
AlterNet, November 12, 2007
Down with the Dollar
The Guardian Unlimited, November 5, 2007
Adjustment Assistance and Globalization: Not Much of a Deal
Truthout, November 5, 2007
Selective Thinking
The Guardian Unlimited, October 30, 2007
The Success of Amazon: Welfare As We Should Know It
Truthout, October 29, 2007
AlterNet, October 30, 2007
CommonDreams.org, October 30, 2007
Chicago Sun-Times, November 4, 2007
Own to Rent: The Right Bailout
The Guardian Unlimited, October 22, 2007
Bailing Out Wall Street - Again
The Guardian Unlimited, October 17, 2007
AlterNet, October 18, 2007
The Real Economic Crisis
The Guardian Unlimited, October 14, 2007 (with John Schmitt)
The Entertainment Industry Police Crackdown
Truthout, October 8, 2007
AlterNet, October 16, 2007
From WMDs to Social Security: More Bush Stories
Truthout, October 1, 2007
Uninsured Kids Are Protecting Bush's Ego
Truthout, September 23, 2007
AlterNet, September 24, 2007
Stop Blaming the Boomers
AlterNet, September 20, 2007
Alan Greenspan and His Bubbles
Truthout, September 19, 2007
Cheap Advice on Real Estate
Truthout, September 17, 2007
The Housing Bubble Pops
The Nation, September 13, 2007
Recession Time! The Housing Bubble Bursts the Economy
Truthout, September 11, 2007
AlterNet, September 12, 2007
The Dirty Toilet Principle: The Fed and the Housing Bubble
Truthout, September 4, 2007
Gas Tax Equals Bridge Safety
BusinessWeek, September 4, 2007
Baker and Samwick: Save the Homeowners, Not the Hedgefunds
Providence Journal, August 31, 2007
The Right to Unionize: Key to Democracy
Truthout, August 27, 2007
AlterNet, August 27, 2007
Have the Hedge Fund Boys Killed Wall Street?
International Business Times, August 21, 2007
Save Subprime Borrowers, Not Bloated Bankers
Truthout, August 20, 2007
The Subprime Borrower Protection Plan
August 20, 2007
Welfare as We Know It Now
Truthout, August 13, 2007
CommonDreams.org, August 14, 2007
Economy Goes From Bad to Worse
Truthout, August 6, 2007
CommonDreams.org, August 7, 2007
Midsummer Market Meltdown: Is the End Near?
Truthout, July 30, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 31, 2007
Big Government Grover and the Fund Manager Subsidy
Truthout, July 23, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 24, 2007
The Fund Manager Tax Scam
International Business Times, July 18, 2007
Subsidies for Fund Managers: Wall Street's Giant Trough
Truthout, July 16, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 17, 2007
Kill the Private-Equity Tax Break
BusinessWeek, July 11, 2007 (Debate with Grover Norquist)
Fixing Health Care: Not Government vs. Market
Truthout, July 10, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 10, 2007
Globalization, Productivity, and "Protectionism": CEPR Responds To Foreign Affairs
(with Mark Weisbrot)
International Business Times, July 6, 2007
The RX from "Sicko:" More Choice
Truthout, July 2, 2007
CommonDreams.org, July 3, 2007
Will Your House Do the NASDAQ Meltdown?
Truthout, June 27, 2007
Edwards Steps Forward on Prescription Drugs
Truthout, June 18, 2007
The Drug Industry Protectionists
International Business Times, June 11, 2007
Is Your Presidential Candidate Owned by Wall Street?
Truthout, June 11, 2007
Prescription Drugs: Where's the Free Market?
Truthout, June 4, 2007
Undoing Bush: The Economy
Harper's Magazine, June 2007
Human Rights at the Workplace
(with Mary Beth Maxwell)
Truthout, May 29, 2007
CommonDreams.org, May 30, 2007
The Peace Weenies Were Right
Truthout, May 21, 2007
Loser Liberalism Versus Power Populism
Truthout, May 14, 2007
CommonDreams.org, May 15, 2007
The Economic Costs of the Iraq War
Truthout, May 7, 2007
Fighting Poverty: The First Step Is Counting It
Truthout, April 30, 2007
America Since 1980: A Right Turn Leading to a Dead End
AlterNet, April 27, 2007
For the Sake of the Planet, Privatize Amtrak
Truthout, April 23, 2007
Containing CEO Pay: A Case of Government Efficiency
Truthout, April 17, 2007
The IMF: A Sandbox to Play In
Truthout, April 10, 2007
The Subprime Meltdown and the Ownership Society
WashingtonPost.com, April 7, 2007
Big Media Runs to the Nanny State
Truthout, April 3, 2007
Thailand Takes the Lead in Promoting Free Trade
The Hankyoreh (S. Korea), March 26, 2007
CommonDreams.org, March 28, 2007
Celebrating Waste: Praise for the Medicare Drug Benefit
Truthout, March 20, 2007
Productivity: Is the Boom Over?
In These Times, March 15, 2007
Safe Ground in a Housing Market Meltdown?
Truthout, March 14, 2007
The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst
Truthout, March 6, 2007
Small Government and the Medicare Drug Benefit
Truthout, February 27, 2007
Trade, Drugs and CEOs
Truthout, February 20, 2007
A Forward Looking Agenda for the Democrats
Challenge Magazine, February 2007
Edwards Steps Out Front on Health Care
Truthout, February 12, 2007
Bring Back the Old George W. Bush
CommonDreams.org, February 7, 2007
If Environmentalists Cared About Global Warming...
Truthout, January 29, 2007
The Social Security WMD Story
Truthout, January 23, 2007
Big Money, Small Money: The War and Student Loans
Truthout, January 18, 2007
Hooked on Drug Money: Will Congress Take a Stand on Medicare?
Truthout, January 10, 2007
Iraq War Lie Detector Test
Truthout, January 2, 2007
Drug Scandals Keep Flowing: Time for New Thinking
Truthout, December 20, 2006
A Peace Prize for Iraq: An Economist's Solution to War
Truthout, December 12, 2006
The Housing Crash Recession of 2007
Truthout, December 5, 2006
Will the Democrats Cut and Run on the Medicare Drug Bill?
Truthout, November 29, 2006
Free Trade Arithmetic for Progressives
Truthout, November 23, 2006
The High Dollar: President Clinton's Unaffordable Tax Cut
Truthout, November 15, 2006
Pushing a Progressive Agenda for the Democrats
Truthout, November 8, 2006
Social Security is on the Ballot Next Week
Truthout, October 31, 2006
After the Housing Bubble Bursts
Truthout, October 24, 2006
Are We Doing Good Yet?
Truthout, October 19, 2006
Fixing Medicare Drugs and attacking crimes
Sun-Sentinel (FL), October 19, 2006
Inequality Without Growth, Pain Without Gain
Truthout, October 10, 2006
Medicare: Why Are Conservatives Scared of Competition?
Truthout, September 27, 2006
Trade Agreements for the Future, Not the Past
The Hankyoreh (S. Korea), September 20, 2006
Deficit Hits New Record
Truthout, September 13, 2006
Globalization: It Didn't Just Happen
Truthout, August 31, 2006
Conservatives Love Government
Truthout, August 22, 2006
The Bursting of the Housing Bubble and the Coming Recession
Truthout, August 17, 2006
Can Clean Insurance Fend Off Global Warming?
Truthout, August 9, 2006
The Coming Housing Crash
TomPaine.com, July 31, 2006
A Korea-U.S. trade agreement: what is at stake?
The Hankyoreh (S. Korea), July 25, 2006
Stagnation Celebration
American Prospect, July 19, 2006
CBSNews.com, July 19, 2006
The WTO and the World's Poor
Truthout, July 12, 2006
Can Progressives Do Arithmetic?
Truthout, July 5, 2006
Prescription Drug Scams
Truthout, June 29, 2006
Wall Street Rules
Truthout, June 21, 2006
Fiction on the Social Security Trust Fund
Truthout, June 16, 2006
Rising Wages for Nurses? Nanny State to the Rescue
Truthout, May 24, 2006
More Hot Air Over the Arctic
Harper's Magazine, May 11, 2006
The Welfare Kings
TomPaine.com, May 10, 2006
The Menace of an Unchecked Housing Bubble
The Economists' Voice, March 30, 2006
Victory in the Medicare Drug War?
In These Times, March 21, 2006
Selling Un-Free Trade Agreements
The Hankyoreh (S. Korea), February 2006
Scoring a Drug Fix
TomPaine.com, January 5, 2006
Taxing the Oil Companies’ Hot Air
(Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot)
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 2, 2006
A Tax Cut Like It's 1986
TomPaine.com, December 5, 2005
Bush Drug Plan an Expensive, Complicated Turkey
Sacramento Bee, November 25, 2005
Is the Fed Overfed?
San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 2005
Baltimore Sun, October 28, 2005
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 14, 2005
Washington Times, November 22, 2005
Numbers before Politics
In These Times, April 26, 2005
The Numbers Racket
Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2005 Issue
Let's Be Honest about Social Security
Boston Globe, March 20, 2005 (with Mark Weisbrot)
"Why Did You Change Your Mind, Mr. Greenspan?"
Houston Chronicle, February 18, 2005
Bush's Numbers Racket
American Prospect, February 2005
Trouble at Home: The Housing Bubble
Demos-USA.org, January 11, 2005
What Crisis?
Washington Post, January 23, 2005
Bergen Record (NJ), January 30, 2005 (with Mark Weisbrot)
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Anti-Social Security
The Nation, December 27, 2004
TomPaine.com, December 13, 2004
Cutting Our Benefits: Bush Begins Second Term by Attacking Social Security
In These Times - December 6, 2004
The Social Security Crisis, Another White House Lie?
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, November 30, 2004
Cutting Social Security for Christians?
Topeka Capital Journal (KS) - November 19, 2004
Lawsuit and Language Abuse Week
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, October 27, 2004
Contra Costa Times (CA), January 30, 2005
Overcoming The Bubble Economy
TomPaine.com, October 12, 2004
Bush's House of Cards
The Nation, August 9, 2004
Old Enough to Take Responsibility
The Guardian, July 26, 2004 (with Mark Weisbrot)
Exercise Fiscal Responsibility
In These Times, July 14, 2004 (with Heather Boushey)
Spinning Out of Control: Making the Recession Look Good
Center for American Progress online, June 4, 2004 (with Heather Boushey)
The Housing Bubble: A Time Bomb in Low-Income Communities?
Shelterforce Online, Issue #135, May/June 2004
Building on the Bubble
Press Enterprise (CA), May 14, 2004
Duluth News-Tribune, May 17, 2004
Houston Chronicle, May 17, 2004
Miami Herald, May 22, 2004
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 23, 2004
The Pantagraph (IL), June 20, 2004
Another Intelligence Failure at the White House
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 12, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2004
Who to Blame When the Next Bubble Bursts
Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2003
Dodge City Daily Globe (KS), December 20, 2003
Tax-Cut/Prosperity Connection Pure Hooey
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1, 2003
Bursting Bubbles: Why the Economy Will Go from Bad to Worse
In These Times, May 9, 2003
A Haywire Patent System Picks Your Pocket at the Drugstore
Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2003
Not Very Stimulating: The Bush Tax Cut
Columbian (WA), January 10, 2003
And additional newspapers
No Cheap Wars
December 16, 2002
Taking one from the Bush team
(Dean Baker and Adria Scharf)
Dollars & Sense, Nov/Dec 2002
No Picnic: Working on Labor Day
(Dean Baker and Helene Jorgensen)
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 2, 2002
Wall Street and Welfare: The "W" Solution
July 15, 2002
First the Hype, Now the Pain; Market's Fall Was Both Predictable and Predicted
Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2002
Newsday (NY), June 30, 2002
The Times Union (NY), June 30, 2002
The Plain Dealer, June 30, 2002
Kansas City Star, July 1, 2002
Attack of the Clowns: The Real Bush is Back
Commondreams.org, May 23, 2002
Will Darth Vader Do Time? The Enron Saga Continues
Commondreams.org, May 8, 2002
Social Security Report Kept From Terrorists
The American Prospect online, March 27, 2002
Focus Group Economics
February 12, 2002
Lying on Top
January 22, 2002
Bush Commission: No Social Security Crisis
San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 2001
(With Mark Weisbrot)
The Social Security Sideshow
December 3, 2001
New Economy Takes a Dive
October 31, 2001
Dying for Patents
October 29, 2001
Patriots Take the Train
Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 21, 2001
Social Security's Real Problem - Trust Fund Theft
July 19, 2001
(With Mark Weisbrot)
The Trust Fund Raiders
Cleveland Plain-Dealer, July 19, 2001
The Liberal Establishment Was Wrong
June 11, 2001
Social Security Privatization - A Faith-Based Initiative?
May 29, 2001
Good Paying Jobs in the New Economy?
April 16, 2001
Hold On While I Sell
Miami Herald, March 26, 2001
(With Mark Weisbrot)
The Long Term Arithmetic of the Stock Market Bubble
March 13, 2001
(With Mark Weisbrot)
Liberals Step to Bush's Barren Beat
Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2001
How About Taxing Those Gamblers on Wall Street?
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7, 2001
Let the People Win the Election
Nov. 16, 2000
(With Mark Weisbrot)
Dot ComBustion
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 12, 2000
Social Security Needs Saving Only From the Politicians
Baltimore Sun, May 23, 2000
Social Security: Too Important to Leave to the Politicians
San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 2000
(With Mark Weisbrot)
Putting 'Secure' Back in Social Security
Washington Post, May 3, 2000
Here's One Way to Real Tax Freedom for Most
Houston Chronicle, May 3, 2000
Old Rules Catching Up With 'New Economy'
San Diego Tribune, April 18, 2000
You Call This a Crisis?
USA Today, April 10, 2000
False Poverty: The Nation Can't Afford To Care For Its Elderly
Aging Today, March/April 2000
The New Economy: A Millenial Myth
Dollars and Sense, March/April 2000
The Real Drug Crisis
August 21, 1999 Bull Market Keynesianism
January 31, 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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