Op-Eds & Columns
Owning Versus Renting
Dean Baker
Spotlight on Poverty, August 24, 2009
Saving Homes With a 'Right to Rent'
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, August 12, 2009
Right to Rent: The Remedy to the Foreclosure Crisis
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 27, 2009
Right to Rent: A Non-Bureaucratic Solution to the Foreclosure Crisis
Dean Baker
The Hearing (Washington Post), July 20, 2009
The Green Shoots Are Dead: We Need a Third Stimulus
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 6, 2009
Making Financial Regulation Work: A Systemic Risk Regulator
Dean Baker
The Hearing (Washington Post), June 22, 2009
Investigating the Collapse: Looking for the Killer We Already Know
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 1, 2009
Statement on Fannie Mae's Deed for Lease Program
November 5, 2009
CBO Warns of Higher Unemployment: Washington Worries About the Deficit
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, August 24, 2009
Owning Versus Renting
Dean Baker
Spotlight on Poverty, August 24, 2009
Saving Homes With a 'Right to Rent'
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, August 12, 2009
Congress Takes First Step Towards Allowing Foreclosed Homeowners to Stay as Renters
CEPR
July 29, 2009
Right to Rent: The Remedy to the Foreclosure Crisis
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 27, 2009
Right to Rent: A Non-Bureaucratic Solution to the Foreclosure Crisis
Dean Baker
The Hearing (Washington Post), July 20, 2009
The Tyranny of Bad Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 20, 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
Talking Points Memo, April 11, 2009
How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, April 4, 2009
The Battle Over the AIG Bonuses: Class War in the Media
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 23, 2009
Rescuing America's Homeowners
Eileen Appelbaum
The American Prospect, February 20, 2009
Fewer Jobs: Stimulus on the Cheap
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 9, 2009
Fannie Mae’s Overpaid Board: Can President Obama Turn Words Into Action?
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 2, 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
Talking Points Memo, January 18, 2009
Give Money to Homeowners, Not Banks
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, January 13, 2009
Yes, We Can Make the Stimulus More Stimulating
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 12, 2009
Wages Soar as Stock Market Tanks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 22, 2008
Homeownership Without Equity: What's It Worth?
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 15, 2008
The Ownership Society: R.I.P.
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 15, 2008
Obama Has the Right Medicine
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 8, 2008
Question for Economic Experts: Can You Say “Housing Bubble"?
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 8, 2008
A Financial Sector Small Enough to Drown in a Bathtub
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, December 8, 2008
The Banking Industry Wants To Help YOU!!!
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, December 3, 2008
IOUSA: Failed Scare Flick of the Decade
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 1, 2008
Paper Wealth and the Economic Crisis
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, November 28, 2008
Stopping Foreclosures With the Right to Rent: One More Time
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 17, 2008
Summers at Treasury: What Would We Tell the Children?
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 7, 2008
After Four Decades, Finally: The Beginning of the End
Mark Weisbrot
Common Dreams, November 5, 2008
Bill O'Reilly is Responsible for the Housing Bubble/Crash
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 29, 2008
Greenspan Says “Who Could Have Known?”
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 27, 2008
Free Market Ideology Melts Down
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, October 27, 2008
Greenspan Follies: The World Is as Ayn Rand Would Have Predicted
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 23, 2008
Peter Peterson’s Bad Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 20, 2008
Prepare to Suffer
John Schmitt
BusinessWeek, October 16, 2008
The Fannie/Freddie Flat Earth Theory
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 13, 2008
Wall Street Bailout Won’t Do Much to Help Ailing Economy
Mark Weisbrot
Modesto Bee (CA), October 9, 2008
Wall Street Follows the Path of the Steel Industry in Pittsburgh
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 6, 2008
Step One: Deflate the Housing Bubble
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited,
October 6, 2008
Statement on Congressional Approval of Bailout
Dean Baker
October 3, 2008
Letting the Bank Robber Fix the Bank's Books
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 3, 2008
Responsibility and the Bailout: Will They Resign If It Fails?
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 2, 2008
The Credit Squeeze Scare
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 1, 2008
The Bailout Round II: Adult Version?
Dean Baker
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
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 29, 2008
The Bailout: Congress Endorses Conservative Nanny State
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 29, 2008
Financial Meltdown: The Day After
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 28, 2008
Bailout Conditions: Ending Welfare as We Know it
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo),
September 27, 2008
Wall Street's Infinite Sleaze: Goldman and AIG
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 27, 2008
Bailing on the Bailout, or Is It Too Big to Bail?
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 26, 2008
No Bailout: Stop Rewarding Incompetence
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 25, 2008
The Washington Post and Peter Peterson: Two More Reasons to Oppose This Bailout
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 25, 2008
Wall Street Free Traders Become Wall Street Protectionists
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 23, 2008
Progressive Conditions for a Bailout
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo),
September 20, 2008
The Financial Meltdown Continues
Dean Baker
September 19, 2008
A Reckoning with Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Washington Times, September 18, 2008
Freddie's Dead
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 8, 2008
Statement on the Conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Dean Baker
September 8, 2008
When You're in Jackson Hole, Stop Digging
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 18, 2008
After the Housing Bill: Time to Address Foreclosures
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 28, 2008
Fannie, Freddie and Minimum Wage
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 28, 2008
Paying for Fannie and Freddie's Mistakes
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 21, 2008
Statement on the Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Dean Baker, July 16, 2008
Help Workers, Not Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 30, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 11
Dean Baker
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, June 27, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 7
Dean Baker
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 22, 2008
Reverse Robin Hood
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 20, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 6
Dean Baker
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 15, 2008
Wrong Then, Wrong Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 12, 2008
Three Things that Won't Help the Foreclosure Crisis
Liz Chimienti and Dean Baker
Truthout, May 8, 2008
The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 5
Dean Baker
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 8, 2008
Some Green Ideas to Get the Economy Moving
April 22, 2008
The Homeownership Ideology
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 21, 2008
Sanctity of Contracts: Mortgages and Credit Cards
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 14, 2008
The Welfare King of the 21st Century
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 31, 2008
Someone Has to Pay
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 31, 2008
Exit, Pursued By Bear Stearns
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 24, 2008
The Housing Crash Recession: How Did We Get Here?
Dean Baker
NOW (PBS), March 21, 2008
Media Needs to Take More Responsibility With Regard to False Information
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, March 12, 2008
What Will President Obama Do?
Dean Baker
de Volkskrant (Netherlands), March 8, 2008
The Hidden Homeowner Tax
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 3, 2008
Own to Rent? Yes We Can!
Dean Baker
Oregon Independent, February 14, 2008
Help for the Homeless
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 11, 2008
These Loans Were Made for Walking: The End of the Subprime Crisis
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 4, 2008
A Lesson From the Last, and Next, Recession
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 2, 2008
Alan Greenspan: The Boy in the Bubble
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 17, 2007
Housing Crash Still Weighs on the Economy
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, December 12, 2007
Bubble Trouble
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 10, 2007
Victories on the Left
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 3, 2007
Stealing Christmas
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 26, 2007
Homeownership: The Fast Path to Poverty
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 12, 2007
Own-to-Rent: The Right Bailout
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 22, 2007
Bailing Out Wall Street - Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 17, 2007
Alan Greenspan and His Bubbles
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 19, 2007
Cheap Advice on Real Estate
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 17, 2007
The Housing Bubble Pops
Dean Baker
The Nation, September 13, 2007
Recession Time! The Housing Bubble Bursts the Economy
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 11, 2007
The Dirty Toilet Principle: The Fed and the Housing Bubble
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 4, 2007
Baker and Samwick: Save the Homeowners, Not the Hedgefunds
Dean Baker
Providence Journal, August 31, 2007
Have the Hedge Fund Boys Killed Wall Street?
Dean Baker
International Business Times, August 21, 2007
Save Subprime Borrowers, Not Bloated Bankers
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 20, 2007
The Subprime Borrower Protection Plan
Dean Baker
August 20, 2007
Will Your House Do the NASDAQ Meltdown?
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 27, 2007
Undoing Bush: The Economy
Dean Baker
Harper's Magazine, June 2007
The U.S. Economy: Where is it Going?
Dean Baker
The Hankyoreh, May 30, 2007
The Subprime Meltdown and the Ownership Society
Dean Baker
WashingtonPost.com, April 7, 2007
Safe Ground in a Housing Market Meltdown?
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 14, 2007
The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 6, 2007
Economy Looks Bad for 2007
Mark Weisbrot
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 2, 2007
The Housing Crash Recession of 2007
Dean Baker
Truthout, Dec. 5, 2006
After the Housing Bubble Bursts
Dean Baker
Truthout, Oct. 24, 2006
The Bursting of the Housing Bubble and the Coming Recession
Dean Baker
Truthout, Aug. 17, 2006
The Coming Housing Crash
Dean Baker
TomPaine.com, July 31, 2006
Fed Treading on Thin Ice as US Housing Bubble Weakens
Mark Weisbrot
Charlotte Observer (NC), July 3, 2006
Repealing Estate Tax Helps Rich, Harms Everyone Else
Mark Weisbrot
Columbus Dispatch (OH), May 8, 2006
The Menace of an Unchecked Housing Bubble
Dean Baker
The Economists' Voice, March 30, 2006
U.S. Economy Faces Large Imbalances in 2006
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee, December 30, 2005
Economic Summit: Fiddling While Rome Burns
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Information Tribune Services, December 14, 2004
Bush's House of Cards
Dean Baker
The Nation, August 9, 2004
The Housing Bubble: A Time Bomb in Low-Income Communities?
Dean Baker
Shelterforce: The Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Building, May/ June 2004
Building on the Bubble
Dean Baker
Houston Chronicle, May 17, 2004
The Sequel to the Stock Market Bubble: the Housing Bubble
Mark Weisbrot
Businessweek.com, April 12, 2004
Is The Fed Playing Election-Year Politics?
Mark Weisbrot
Jordan Times, April 1, 2004
Who to Blame When the Next Bubble Bursts
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 18, 2003
Not Very Stimulating: The Bush Tax Cut
Dean Baker
Columbian (WA), Jan. 10, 2003
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