Op-Eds & Columns

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

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

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

The Rally Against Obamacare for the Banks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 21, 2009

What Reforms Will The United States Have as a Result of This Recession?
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, September 17, 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

Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” Will Find a Ready Audience
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, September 10, 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

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

Goldman Sachs: The Golden Diaper Brigade
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 17, 2009

The Case for No Stimulus
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 10, 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

Are We Better off Because of the Stimulus?
Dean Baker
The New Republic, July 31, 2009

This Downturn Is Different
John Schmitt
The Debate Room (BusinessWeek), July 31, 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

Trade Adjustments and Stimulus Packages in the Global Recession and Recovery
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, July 23, 2009

Right to Rent: A Non-Bureaucratic Solution to the Foreclosure Crisis
Dean Baker
The Hearing (Washington Post), 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

Stimulus Arithmetic
Dean Baker
July 13, 2009, The Guardian Unlimited

Another $230 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

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

Yes, We Can Tax Those Wall Street Bastards
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 29, 2009

Making Financial Regulation Work: A Systemic Risk Regulator
Dean Baker
Washington Post, June 22, 2009

Waterboard the Fed?
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 25, 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

Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 4, 2009

Let's Make PPIP Fun!
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, April 30, 2009

The Obama Administration and the Bankers: 100 Days of Solicitude
Dean Baker
Huffington Post, April 28, 2009

Financial Transactions Tax: The Perfect Gift for Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 27, 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

More Fiscal Stimulus is Needed to Reverse Economic Decline
Mark Weisbrot  
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 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
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

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
Talking Points Memo, 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
Talking Points Memo, April 2, 2009

Obama's Restructuring of the Auto Industry
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, April 1-3, 2009

G-20: Welcome to the Multi-Polar World
Mark Weisbrot  
The Guardian Unlimited, April 1, 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
Talking Points Memo, March 25, 2009

G-20 Should Think Twice About Increasing IMF Funding Without Reforms
Mark Weisbrot   En español
The Guardian Unlimited, 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

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
Talking Points Memo, March 13, 2009

We Demand to See More Transparency
Dean Baker
Marketplace, March 9, 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

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

Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever
Mark Weisbrot  
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 27, 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

Rescuing America's Homeowners
Eileen Appelbaum
The American Prospect, February 20, 2009

CEPR Statement on Media Coverage of the Stimulus Plan
The Center for Economic and Policy Research
February 19, 2009

Quick, What's Wrong With a Tax Cut that Shortens Work Hours?
Dean Baker
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
Talking Points Memo, February 13, 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

New Thinking on the Economy
Dean Baker
Truthout, 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

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
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

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

Redefining Chutzpah: Wall Street Goes After Social Security, Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, 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

Part-Time Government Employees Earn $160,000 a Year
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, December 25, 2008

Sex and Money: Are Women Regulators Different?
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 22, 2008

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

If G.M. Were a Canadian Company, It Wouldn't be Asking for Help
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, December 11, 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

Will Henry Paulson Sink Detroit?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, November 20, 2008

The Stock Market, the Government Just Needs to Spend Money
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), November 20, 2008

Stopping Foreclosures With the Right to Rent: One More Time
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 17, 2008

Health Care as Stimulus: The Best Way to Spend Big Bucks
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 17, 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

Summers at Treasury: What Would We Tell the Children?
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 7, 2008

President Obama's Path to Greatness: Health Care As Stimulus
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 4, 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

Post Only Supports Bailouts for Robert Rubin, Not Autoworkers
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 27, 2008

Can We Stop "Spreading the Wealth Around"?
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 25, 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

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)

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

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

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

Swift Boat Economics
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 18, 2008

The Recession in the United States: A Progress Report
Dean Baker
The Hankyoreh (South Korea), July 1, 2008