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

U.S. Must Solve Its Own Economic Problems
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, November 12, 2009

Breaking up the Banks, Like Renegotiating NAFTA?
Dean Baker
TPM Café, November 10, 2009

Massive Defense Spending Leads to Job Loss
Dean Baker
Truthout, 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

A New Role For the IMF?

Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, October 8, 2009

G-20 Doesn’t Offer Much Reform
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, September 27, 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

Irresponsibly Following the Congressional Budget Office
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 31, 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

Ecuador's Election Shows Why Left Continues Winning in Hard Times
Mark Weisbrot   En español  
The Guardian Unlimited, May 1, 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

It's the Global Economy (Stupid) or Is It?
Mark Weisbrot   En español  
The Guardian Unlimited, April 8, 2009

G-20: Welcome to the Multi-Polar World
Mark Weisbrot  
The Guardian Unlimited, April 1, 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

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

Stimulus Time: The Fierce Urgency of Now
Mark Weisbrot  
Honolulu Advertiser (HI), January 4, 2009

Obama Has the Right Medicine
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 8, 2008

Paper Wealth and the Economic Crisis
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, November 28, 2008

South America: Recession Can Be Avoided
Mark Weisbrot   En español
Página/12 (Argentina), November 16, 2008

The G-20 and Biological Warfare
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 10, 2008

After Four Decades, Finally: The Beginning of the End
Mark Weisbrot
Common Dreams, November 5, 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

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

Are You Better Off? Reagan vs. Carter, and Obama vs. McCain
Dean Baker and John Schmitt
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), October 14, 2008

No Blank Cheque for Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, September 22, 2008

The Financial Meltdown Continues
Dean Baker
September 19, 2008

Globalization: Leaving the WTO Behind
Deborah James   En español
Alternet, August 21, 2008

Offshore Drilling Won't Help But "Green Stimulus" Can
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee, July 31, 2008

McCain's "Knowledge Gap": It's An Issue
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, July 11, 2008

Internet Purchases Shouldn't Be Subsidized
Mark Weisbrot
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 12, 2008

Fast Facts for Father's Day: Lone-Father Families and Economic Insecurity
Shawn Fremstad and Rebecca Ray
June 12, 2008

The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 7
Dean Baker
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 22, 2008

The Meltdown Lowdown, No. 6
Dean Baker
TAP (The American Prospect) Online, May 15, 2008

The IMF's Historic Transition: Is Less Better?
Mark Weisbrot   En español
Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2008

What Will President Obama Do?
Dean Baker
de Volkskrant (Netherlands), March 8, 2008

The Media Need More TLC in CAFTA Reporting
Dan Beeton
Media Accuracy on Latin America (NACLA), February 27, 2008

Is Bush to Blame for the Economy?
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, February 25, 2008

Own to Rent? Yes We Can!
Dean Baker
Oregon Independent, February 14, 2008

Proposed Stimulus Package is Not Enough
Mark Weisbrot
Kansas City Star, February 3, 2008

Big Rate Cuts and Fiscal Stimulus: Are We "All Keynesians Now?"
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, January 22, 2008

Stimulating Politics
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 21, 2008

A Lesson From the Last, and Next, Recession
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 2, 2008

Edwards Comes Out on Top on the Economy
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 31, 2007

Santa Claus Comes to Wall Street
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 24, 2007

Alan Greenspan: The Boy in the Bubble
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 17, 2007

The Real Economic Crisis
Dean Baker and John Schmitt
The Guardian Unlimited, October 14, 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

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

Globalization, Productivity, and "Protectionism": CEPR Responds To Foreign Affairs
Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker
International Business Times, July 6, 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

Wolfowitz and the Bank
Mark Weisbrot
The Nation, May 24, 2007

Productivity Growth: Is the Golden Goose Dying?
Dean Baker
International Business Times, May 8, 2007

The Economic Costs of the Iraq War
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 7, 2007

America Since 1980: A Right Turn Leading to a Dead End
Dean Baker
AlterNet, April 27, 2007

Economic Misinformation Plays a Major Role in French Election
Mark Weisbrot   En Français
WashingtonPost.com, April 26, 2007

How to Expand the Middle Class
Shawn Fremstad & Margy Waller
Philadelphia Daily News, March 29, 2007

Democracy Pays Off in Bolivia
Mark Weisbrot   En español
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, March 19, 2007

Turning the Tables
Mark Weisbrot
Emerging Markets, March 18, 2007

Productivity: Is the Boom Over?
Dean Baker
In These Times, March 15, 2007

President Bush's Trip to Latin America Is All About Denial
Mark Weisbrot   En español
Contra Costa Times (CA), March 11, 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

Ecuador's Clear Choice for President
Mark Weisbrot
WashingtonPost.com, Nov. 25, 2006 

Free Trade Arithmetic for Progressives
Dean Baker
Truthout, Nov. 23, 2006

Inequality Without Growth, Pain Without Gain
Dean Baker
Truthout, Oct. 10, 2006

Trade Agreements for the Future, Not the Past
Dean Baker
The Hankyoreh, Sep. 20, 2006

Globalization: It Didn't Just Happen
Dean Baker
Truthout, Aug. 31, 2006

The WTO and the World's Poor
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 12, 2006

Would the Left Be Better for Mexico?
Mark Weisbrot
San Jose Mercury News (CA) - July 9, 2006

Mexico: Their Brand is Crisis
Mark Weisbrot
La Jornada (Mexico), June 29, 2006    En Español

Congress May Have to Raise the Minimum Wage
Mark Weisbrot
Mother Jones, June 27, 2006

Latin American "Populism" Doing Well
Mark Weisbrot
Cadillac News (MI), March 17, 2006

Another Election, Another Wake-Up Call for Washington
Mark Weisbrot
Topeka Capital Journal (KS), March 4, 2006   En español

Latin America Shifts Left: It's the Economy
Mark Weisbrot     En Español     På Svenska
AlterNet - January 21, 2006

U.S. Economy Faces Large Imbalances in 2006
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee, December 30, 2005

Economic Growth is a Home Run in Venezuela
Mark Weisbrot    En español
Knight-Ridder Tribune Information Services, November 1, 2005

A Marshall Plan for the Gulf Coast
John Schmitt
Topeka Capital - Journal (KS), October 22, 2005 

A Dangerous Imbalance
Mark Weisbrot
International Herald Tribune, April 28, 2005

Slower Growth Likely in 2005
Mark Weisbrot
February 5, 2005 

Economic Summit: Fiddling While Rome Burns
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Information Tribune Services, December 14, 2004 

Is Turkey the Next Argentina?
Mark Weisbrot
International Herald Tribune, December 4, 2004

Overcoming the Bubble Economy
Dean Baker
TomPaine.com, October 12, 2004

The Selling of the President: Will Myth Triumph Over Reality?
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, October 12, 2004 

Labor Day 2004: Not Much to Celebrate
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 5, 2004

Venezuela's Referendum Should be a Wake-Up
Mark Weisbrot
San Jose Mercury News, August 22, 2004

Bush's House of Cards
Dean Baker
The Nation, August 9, 2004

Old Enough to Take Responsibility
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian, July 26, 2004

Spinning Out of Control: Making the Recession Look Good
Dean Baker and Heather Boushey
Center for American Progress website, June 4, 2004

Another Intelligence Failure at the White House
Dean Baker
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 17, 2004

Bush Promises the Moon, But Where are the Jobs?
Mark Weisbrot
Charlotte Observer, January 14, 2004

Signs of Economic Discovery Haven't Trickled Down
Mark Weisbrot
Detroit Free Press, December 5, 2003

Top Gun Fires Blanks on the Economy
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, October 30, 2003 

Globalization Fails to Deliver
Mark Weisbrot
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 3, 2002

Threat of Deflation is Exaggerated
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, July 2, 2003

Tax-Cut/Prosperity Connection Pure Hooey
Dean Baker
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1, 2003

Tax Cut Continues "Class Warfare"
Mark Weisbrot
Houston Chronicle, May 28, 2003

Argentina's Cancelled Election: It's the Economy, and the Electorate has Decided
Mark Weisbrot
Bangkok Post, May 24, 2003

Bursting Bubbles: Why the Economy Will Go from Bad to Worse
Dean Baker
In These Times, May 9, 2003

U.S. Economic Prescriptions Still Failing in Latin America
Mark Weisbrot
San Gabriel Valley Tribune, April 29, 2003

The IMF and the World Bank: Poverty Reduction and Growth? Or the Same Old Formula?
Mark Weisbrot and Debayani Kar
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, April 10, 2003 

Why He Can't Wait
Mark Weisbrot
The Record (NJ), March 13, 2003

It's a New Day, and Brazil Wants a New Deal
Mark Weisbrot
Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2002

Brazil Pays So the Banks Don't Have To
Mark Weisbrot
Washington Post, September 1, 2002

Economists in Denial
Mark Weisbrot
Washington Post, August 5, 2002

Brazil's Challenge
Mark Weisbrot
Janesville Gazette (WI), July 12, 2002

IMF Playing With Fire in Argentina
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, February 17, 2002 

Campaign 2002: It's the Economy and It's Going to be Stupid
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 2002

Argentina's Crisis, IMF's Fingerprints
Mark Weisbrot
Washington Post, December 25, 2001

"New Economy" Cycle Ends, But Myth Persists
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, November 27, 2001 

What's At Stake in Argentina
Mark Weisbrot
Los Angeles Times, Sep. 5, 2001

IMF "Rescue" Won't Help Latin America
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 13, 2001 

The World Bank's Attack on Social Security
Dean Baker
August 7, 2001

Meet the New Economy - Same as the Old Economy?
Mark Weisbrot
Huntsville Times (AL), June 10, 2001

Good Paying Jobs in the New Economy?
Dean Baker
April 16, 2001

Hold On While I Sell
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
Miami Herald, March 26, 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

Bursting Greenspan's Bubble
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 10, 2000

Three Billion Dollar Campaign Ends in Gridlock
Mark Weisbrot
The Roanoke Times & World News, Nov. 14, 2000

Still Hasn't Found What He's Looking For
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Oct. 19, 2000

Candidates Ignore Poverty in Year 2000 Elections
Mark Weisbrot
Tallahassee Democrat, Oct. 16, 2000

Great Myths and False Promises Dominate UN Summit
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Sep. 6, 2000

Venezuelan Elections Offer Hope of Real Reform
Mark Weisbrot
Boston Globe, Aug. 1, 2000

Rich Countries Offer Empty Promises to the World's Poor
Mark Weisbrot
Miami Herald, July 27, 2000

We Need More World and a Lot Less Bank
Mark Weisbrot
Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2000

Double Bubble - Headed for Trouble?
Mark Weisbrot
St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 23, 2000

World Bank Oil Pipeline Project: Much Pain, No Gain
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, June 5, 2000

Globalization on the Ropes
Mark Weisbrot
Harper's Magazine, May 2000

You Call This a Crisis?
Dean Baker
USA Today, Apil 10, 2000

The New Economy: A Millenial Myth
Dean Baker
Dollars and Sense, March/April 2000

The IMF Under Attack
Mark Weisbrot
Dallas Morning News, March 12, 2000

King's Dream: Still Distant
Mark Weisbrot
Boston Globe, Jan. 17, 2000

Time to End Debt Slavery
Mark Weisbrot
Calgary Herald, Oct. 20, 1999

Shaming the Powerful
Mark Weisbrot
San Francisco Examiner, Sep. 29, 1999

World's Poorest Countries Are Still Waiting for Real Debt Relief
Mark Weisbrot
Indianopolis News, June 24, 1999

IMF Spring Meetings Show That Little Has Been Learned from Recent Experience
Mark Weisbrot
Chicago Tribune, April 30, 1999

Spring Protests in Washington, DC: Another Seattle?
Mark Weisbrot
Journal of Commerce, March 28, 2000

No Need for China to Join the WTO
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, April 12, 1999

Does Russia Need Another Loan From the IMF?
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, March 23, 1999

Why Record Trade Deficits Haven't Slowed U.S. Growth
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Feb. 22, 1999

Bull Market Keynesianism
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, Jan./Feb. 1999

President Clinton's Dumb Luck
Mark Weisbrot
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan. 15, 1999

Fed Could Do More to Help U.S. Economy
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Nov. 22, 1998

Can Brazil Afford to be 'Rescued'?
Mark Weisbrot
The Washington Post, Nov. 16, 1998

Chilean Model Has Little to Emulate
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Oct. 8, 1998

Reality Check
Mark Weisbrot
Chicago Tribune, Aug. 16, 1998

NAFTA for Africa: Neither Growth Nor Opportunity
Mark Weisbrot
Sunday Journal, March 8, 1998

Why No One Needs to Worry About Social Security or the National Debt
Mark Weisbrot
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 21, 1998

The Political Economy of U.S.-China Relations
Mark Weisbrot
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov. 7, 1997

Will the Hong Kong Dollar Collapse? Does It Matter?
Mark Weisbrot
Boston Globe, Oct. 29, 1997