Op-Eds & Columns

The Peter G. Peterson Crew Is Coming After Your Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 23, 2009

The Economists Who Missed the Housing Bubble Are Coming After Your Social Security
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, February 13, 2009

Washington Post: The Problem is YOU, Not "We"
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, December 21, 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

Getting to the Root of a Horror Story
Dean Baker
The Oregonian, October 31, 2008

New Film on National Debt Focuses on Wrong Problem
Dean Baker and F. Scott McCown
The Houston Chronicle, October 31, 2008

The Deficit and Health Care Costs
Dean Baker and Murtaza H. Baxamusa
The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 31, 2008

Response to IOUSA Director Patrick Creadon
Dean Baker
October 29, 2008

Peter Peterson’s Bad Economics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 20, 2008

The Washington Post and Peter Peterson: Two More Reasons to Oppose This Bailout
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), September 25, 2008

Protectionists Warn Over National Debt
Dean Baker
Beat the Press, August 24, 2008

Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 21, 2008