Op-Eds & Columns
Obama's 'Nuclear Option' on China's Yuan
Dean Baker
Christian Science Monitor, November 16, 2009
U.S. Must Solve Its Own Economic Problems
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, November 12, 2009
Massive Defense Spending Leads to Job Loss
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 10, 2009
A New Role For the IMF?
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, October 8, 2009
Debunking the Dumping-the-Dollar Conspiracy
Dean Baker
Foreign Policy, October 7, 2009
G-20 Doesn’t Offer Much Reform
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, September 27, 2009
Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” Will Find a Ready Audience
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, September 10, 2009
Big Deficit Bob Rubin and the Strong Dollar
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 8, 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
“Big Government” and the Health Care Crazies
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 17, 2009
Myths About U.S. Economic Model May Not Survive the World Recession
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, August 14, 2009
Stimulus Works, Give Us More!
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 3, 2009
Are We Better off Because of the Stimulus?
Dean Baker
The New Republic, July 31, 2009
More Stimulus, Please
By Dean Baker
USA Today, 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
NPR, the IMF, and the Global Savings Glut
Dean Baker
TPMCafé, June 16, 2009
Health Care and Student Loans: The Bad Guys Are on the Run
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, 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
Systematic Risk Regulators and the Power of Arithmetic
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 4, 2009
IMF Shouldn't Get Money Without Reform
Mark Weisbrot En español
New York Times and International Herald Tribune, April 24, 2009
Malpractice
Dean Baker
Boston Review, May/June 2009
The Tyranny of Bad Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 20, 2009
More Fiscal Stimulus is Needed to Reverse Economic Decline
Mark Weisbrot
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 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
It's the Global Economy (Stupid) or Is It?
Mark Weisbrot En español
The Guardian Unlimited, April 8, 2009
Europe's Leaders Must Say "Stimulus"
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, April 2, 2009
G-20: Welcome to the Multi-Polar World
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, April 1, 2009
China’s Empty Threat
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 30, 2009
G-20 Should Think Twice About Increasing IMF Funding Without Reforms
Mark Weisbrot En español
The Guardian Unlimited, March 25, 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
East Asia's Revenge: The Crash of the Housing Bubble
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 9, 2009
World Recession Forces Economic Re-thinking
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, March 4, 2009
Are We Really Nostalgic for the Great Depression?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 2, 2009
Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever
Mark Weisbrot
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 27, 2009
CEPR Statement on Media Coverage of the Stimulus Plan
The Center for Economic and Policy Research
February 19, 2009
The TARP Dog and Pony Show
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, February 11, 2009
"Buy Keynesian"
John Schmitt
February 10, 2009
Fewer Jobs: Stimulus on the Cheap
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 9, 2009
Buy America and the Knee-Jerk "Free Trade" Crowd
Dean Baker
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
The Banks Have Stolen Enough; It's Time to Take Them Over
Dean Baker
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
Talking Points Memo, January 23, 2009
President Obama’s Big Stimulus
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 19, 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
Talking Points Memo, January 5, 2009
Stimulus Time: The Fierce Urgency of Now
Mark Weisbrot
Honolulu Advertiser (HI), January 4, 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
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, December 28, 2008
Wages Soar as Stock Market Tanks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 22, 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
Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 1, 2008
Paper Wealth and the Economic Crisis
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, November 28, 2008
Why Does Robert Rubin Still Have a Job?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, November 25, 2008
The Bear is Cool: Overcoming Fears of Falling Stock Prices
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 24, 2008
Geithner at Treasury: Can He Learn?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 24, 2008
The Stock Market, the Government Just Needs to Spend Money
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 20, 2008
Will Henry Paulson Sink Detroit?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, November 20, 2008
South America: Recession Can Be Avoided
Mark Weisbrot En español
Página/12 (Argentina), November 16, 2008
Henry Paulson Takes Down the TARP: Sort Of
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 16, 2008
The G-20 and Biological Warfare
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 10, 2008
The Obama Economic Team: Clinton Retreads?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 10, 2008
CEPR Statement for the Next Administration
November 3, 2008
Greenspan Says “Who Could Have Known?”
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 27, 2008
Ripping Off European Investors: The Great American Pastime
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 27, 2008
Free Market Ideology Melts Down
Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, October 27, 2008
Why Obama Has Pulled Ahead on the Economic Issues
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee (CA), October 23, 2008
Greenspan Follies: The World Is as Ayn Rand Would Have Predicted
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 23, 2008
Still A Boys' Club at Treasury: Where Is Sheila Bair?
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 21, 2008
Redistribution: From Joe the Plumber to Robert Rubin
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 20, 2008
Peter Peterson’s Bad Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 20, 2008
Any Pay Cuts on Wall Street Yet?
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 20, 2008
Stimulus Can Put Main Street on the Road to Recovery
Eileen Appelbaum
The Star-Ledger (NJ), October 16, 2008
Prepare to Suffer
John Schmitt
BusinessWeek, October 16, 2008
Generous Henry's Big Bailout
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo)
Are You Better Off? Reagan vs. Carter, and Obama vs. McCain
Dean Baker and John Schmitt
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 14, 2008
The Return of Great Depression Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 13, 2008
The Fannie/Freddie Flat Earth Theory
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 13, 2008
Bailout Scorecard: Ignorant Masses 1, Elites 0
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 12, 2008
Statement on the Need for Coordinated Stimulus
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
October 10, 2008
Wall Street Bailout Won’t Do Much to Help Ailing Economy
Mark Weisbrot
Modesto Bee (CA), October 9, 2008
Mistake to Trust Wall Street Insiders to Clean Up Mess
Dean Baker
Houston Chronicle, October 8, 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
Post Claims Paulson Misled Bush on Bailout
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 6, 2008
Stock Market Closes Below Monday Low: Come On Let's Have Some Hysteria!
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 3, 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
No Blank Cheque for Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 22, 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
Time to Take a Second Look at Our "Free Trade" Agreements
Mark Weisbrot
Fresno Bee, September 18, 2008
A Reckoning with Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Washington Times, September 18, 2008
Big Banks Go Bust: Time to Reform Wall Street
Dean Baker
Blog for Our Future (Campaign for America's Future), September 15, 2008
The Whiner's Recession
Dean Baker
Truthout, 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
The Menace of Inflation
Dean Baker
The Hankyoreh (South Korea), July 28, 2008
Statement on the Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Dean Baker, July 16, 2008
The Recession in the United States: A Progress Report
Dean Baker
The Hankyoreh (South Korea), July 1, 2008
Bloodletting on Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 23, 2008
U.S. Economy: The Worst is Yet to Come
Mark Weisbrot
Charlotte Observer (NC), May 23, 2008
Wrong Then, Wrong Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 12, 2008
Some Green Ideas to Get the Economy Moving
April 22, 2008
Declaring Class War
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 14, 2008
The Tip of the Iceberg
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 7, 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 War at Home
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 10, 2008
What Will President Obama Do?
Dean Baker
de Volkskrant (Netherlands), March 8, 2008
Thrifty Thinking
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 25, 2008
Raising Taxes to Bail Out Robert Rubin
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 25, 2008
Own to Rent? Yes We Can!
Dean Baker
Oregon Independent, February 14, 2008
The US Economy, Pravda Style
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 28, 2008
Ben Bernanke: Supernanny?
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 28, 2008
Big Rate Cuts and Fiscal Stimulus: Are We "All Keynesians Now?"
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, January 22, 2008
Santa Claus Comes to Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 24, 2007
IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy
Mark Weisbrot En español
International Herald Tribune, October 19, 2007
Bailing Out Wall Street - Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 17, 2007
The Real Economic Crisis
Dean Baker and John Schmitt
The Guardian Unlimited, October 14, 2007
From WMDs to Social Security: More Bush Stories
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 1, 2007
Alan Greenspan and His Bubbles
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 19, 2007
Recession Time! The Housing Bubble Bursts the Economy
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 11, 2007
Bush's Painful, Lopsided Economic 'Recovery' Continues
Heather Boushey
AlterNet, August 30, 2007
Economy Goes From Bad to Worse
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 6, 2007
Midsummer Market Meltdown: Is the End Near?
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 30, 2007
Is Your Presidential Candidate Owned by Wall Street?
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 11, 2007
The U.S. Economy: Where is it Going?
Dean Baker
The Hankyoreh, May 30, 2007
The Economic Costs of the Iraq War
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 7, 2007
Productivity: Is the Boom Over?
Dean Baker
In These Times, March 15, 2007
Economy Looks Bad for 2007
Mark Weisbrot
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 2, 2007
Are We Doing Good Yet?
Dean Baker
Truthout, Oct. 19, 2006
Inequality Without Growth, Pain Without Gain
Dean Baker
Truthout, Oct. 10, 2006
Deficit Hits New Record
Dean Baker
Truthout, Sep. 13, 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
Wall Street Rules
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 21, 2006
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
Who to Blame When the Next Bubble Bursts
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 18, 2003
Bursting Bubbles: Why the Economy Will Go from Bad to Worse
Dean Baker
In These Times, May 9, 2003
The Post-Bubble Economy: A Better World
Mark Weisbrot
The Burlington Free Press (VT), July 25, 2002
An Economist's View of the Stock Market
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, July 18, 2002
First the Hype, Now the Pain; Market's Fall Was Both Predictable and Predicted
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2002
Campaign 2002: It's the Economy and It's Going to be Stupid
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 2002
The Social Security Sideshow
Dean Baker
Dec. 3, 2001
Social Security Privatization - A Faith-Based Initiative?
Dean Baker
May 29, 2001
The Long Term Arithmetic of the Stock Market Bubble
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
March 13, 2001
Liberals Step to Bush's Barren Beat
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2001
Clinton's Economic Legacy
Mark Weisbrot
Buffalo News, Jan. 14, 2001
Think Again if You're in the Market for the "Long Haul"
Mark Weisbrot
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 5, 2001
Dot ComBustion
Dean Baker
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 12, 2000
Old Rules Catching Up With 'New Economy'
Dean Baker
San Diego Tribune, April 18, 2000
Stock Market Jitters
Mark Weisbrot
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Oct. 28, 1999
Trade Deficit Driven By Bad Policy Decisions
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Oct. 20, 1999
Fed Raises Interest Rates Again - But Why?
Mark Weisbrot
San Diego Union Tribune, Aug. 25, 1999
Fed's Pre-emptive Strike is Aimed at Working Families
Mark Weisbrot
Chicago Sun Times, July 2, 1999
Fed Threatens to Derail Economic Expansion
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee, June 11, 1999
No Change at Treasury, But It Sure is Needed
Mark Weisbrot
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA), May 18, 1999
Greenspan Plays With Fire - Who Will Get Burned?
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, March 16, 2000
Bull Market Keynesianism
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, Jan./Feb. 1999
I'm Okay, Euro-K
Mark Weisbrot
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 10. 1999
Fed Could Do More to Help U.S. Economy
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Nov. 22, 1998
Reality Check
Mark Weisbrot
Chicago Tribune, Aug. 16, 1998
The Bull Market's Inevitable End: Who Will Be Left Standing When the Music Stops?
Mark Weisbrot
Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 13, 1998
Will the Hong Kong Dollar Collapse? Does It Matter?
Mark Weisbrot
Boston Globe, Oct. 29, 1997
Zero-Inflation Madness: Going for Broke
Mark Weisbrot
Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 24, 1997
Wall Street, Main Street, and the Fed
Mark Weisbrot
Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, April 20, 1997
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