Op-Eds & Columns
Hostage Takers in the Senate
Dean Baker
Truthout, November 16, 2009
Financial Transactions Taxes Must Come Before a National Sales Tax
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 9, 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
CBO Warns of Higher Unemployment: Washington Worries About the Deficit
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, August 24, 2009
Goldman Sachs: The Golden Diaper Brigade
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 17, 2009
Yes, We Can Tax Those Wall Street Bastards
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 29, 2009
Health Care and Student Loans: The Bad Guys Are on the Run
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, May 11, 2009
The Banks Are Alright; Time to End the Bailouts
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 11, 2009
The Obama Administration and the Bankers: 100 Days of Solicitude
Dean Baker
Huffington Post, April 28, 2009
Can Health Insurers Whine Louder Than Bankers?
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 27, 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
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
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
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
Geithner’s Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer
Dean Baker
Truthout, 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
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
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 Peter G. Peterson Crew Is Coming After Your Social Security and Medicare
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, February 23, 2009
Quick, What's Wrong With a Tax Cut that Shortens Work Hours?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, 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
Fannie Mae’s Overpaid Board: Can President Obama Turn Words Into Action?
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 2, 2009
The Anti-Stimulus Crowd Blows a Gasket
Dean Baker
Truthout, 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
Redefining Chutzpah: Wall Street Goes After Social Security, Again
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 12, 2009
Stimulus Time: The Fierce Urgency of Now
Mark Weisbrot
Honolulu Advertiser (HI), January 4, 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
Part-Time Government Employees Earn $160,000 a Year
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, December 25, 2008
Washington Post: The Problem is YOU, Not "We"
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, December 21, 2008
Obama Has the Right Medicine
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 8, 2008
A Financial Sector Small Enough to Drown in a Bathtub
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, December 8, 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
Why Does Robert Rubin Still Have a Job?
Dean Baker
Talking Points Memo, November 25, 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
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
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
President Obama's Path to Greatness: Health Care As Stimulus
Dean Baker
TPM Café (Talking Points Memo), November 4, 2008
CEPR Statement for the Next Administration
November 3, 2008
Response to IOUSA Director Patrick Creadon
Dean Baker
October 29, 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
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
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
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
Mistake to Trust Wall Street Insiders to Clean Up Mess
Dean Baker
Houston Chronicle, October 8, 2008
We Need to Drive a Stake into the Heart of Conservatism
Dean Baker
TPM Café Book Club (Talking Points Memo), 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
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
Big Banks Go Bust: Time to Reform Wall Street
Dean Baker
Blog for Our Future (Campaign for America's Future), September 15, 2008
John McCain Wants to Privatize Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 15, 2008
Let's Get Down to Gas Tax
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, August 11, 2008
Offshore Drilling Won't Help But "Green Stimulus" Can
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee, July 31, 2008
Statement on the Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Dean Baker, July 16, 2008
A Tax Plan By Any Other Name
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 14, 2008
McCain's "Knowledge Gap": It's An Issue
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, July 11, 2008
Help Workers, Not Wall Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 30, 2008
Internet Purchases Shouldn't Be Subsidized
Mark Weisbrot
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 12, 2008
Some Green Ideas to Get the Economy Moving
April 22, 2008
The Audacity of Populism: What Obama Needs to Do
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, April 7, 2008
Exit, Pursued By Bear Stearns
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 24, 2008
The Hidden Homeowner Tax
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 3, 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 Green Lining
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 14, 2008
Edwards Comes Out on Top on the Economy
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 31, 2007
Creative Thinking
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 17, 2007
Selective Thinking
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, October 29, 2007
The Success of Amazon: Welfare As We Should Know It
Dean Baker
Truthout, October 29, 2007
Gas Tax Equals Bridge Safety
Dean Baker
BusinessWeek, September 4, 2007
Subsidies for Fund Managers: Wall Street's Giant Trough
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 16, 2007
Kill the Private-Equity Tax Break
Dean Baker
BusinessWeek, July 11, 2007 (Debate with Grover Norquist)
The RX from "Sicko:" More Choice
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 2, 2007
Is Your Presidential Candidate Owned by Wall Street?
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 11, 2007
Loser Liberalism Versus Power Populism
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 14, 2007
The Economic Costs of the Iraq War
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 7, 2007
Fighting Poverty: The First Step Is Counting It
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 30, 2007
The Subprime Meltdown and the Ownership Society
Dean Baker
WashingtonPost.com, April 7, 2007
Every Uninsured Child Should Have Access to Health Care
Mark Weisbrot
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, March 30, 2007
Celebrating Waste: Praise for the Medicare Drug Benefit
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 20, 2007
The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 6, 2007
Big Money, Small Money: The War and Student Loans
Dean Baker
Truthout, Jan. 18, 2007
Iraq War Lie Detector Test
Dean Baker
Truthout, Jan. 2, 2007
Economy Looks Bad for 2007
Mark Weisbrot
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 2, 2007
Expanding Medicare: A Step Toward Universal Health Ins. for Americans
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee, Dec. 19, 2006
Will the Democrats Cut and Run on the Medicare Drug Bill?
Dean Baker
Truthout, Nov. 29, 2006
The High Dollar: President Clinton's Unaffordable Tax Cut
Dean Baker
Truthout, Nov. 15, 2006
Fixing Medicare Drugs & Attacking Crime
Dean Baker
Sun-Sentinel (FL), Oct. 19, 2006
Medicare: Why Are Conservatives Scared of Competition?
Dean Baker
Truthout, Sep. 27, 2006
Deficit Hits New Record
Dean Baker
Truthout, Sep. 13, 2006
Conservatives Love Government
Dean Baker
Truthout, Aug. 22, 2006
The WTO and the World's Poor
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 12, 2006
Can Progressives Do Arithmetic?
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 5, 2006
Fed Treading on Thin Ice as US Housing Bubble Weakens
Mark Weisbrot
Charlotte Observer (NC), July 3, 2006
Prescription Drug Scams
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 29, 2006
The Welfare Kings
Dean Baker
TomPaine.com, May 10, 2006
Repealing Estate Tax Helps Rich, Harms Everyone Else
Mark Weisbrot
Columbus Dispatch (OH), May 8, 2006
Taxing the Oil Companies' Hot Air
Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker
Duluth News Tribune, January 30, 2006
A Tax Cut Like It's 1986
Dean Baker
TomPaine.com, December 5, 2005
House Budget Cuts College Aid
Heather Boushey
Sun-Sentinel, November 14, 2005
Bernanke Could Face Serious Trouble
Mark Weisbrot
Charleston Gazette, November 6, 2005
Is the Fed Overfed?
Dean Baker
San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 2005
Numbers Before Politics
Dean Baker
In These Times, April 26, 2005
The Numbers Racket
Dean Baker
Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2005
Owning Up to the "Ownership Society"
Mark Weisbrot
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 25, 2005
2018
Mark Weisbrot
Denver Post, February 7, 2005
Bush's Numbers Racket
Dean Baker
The American Prospect, February 2005
Social Security Deception Funded With Taxpayers' Dollars
Mark Weisbrot
Topeka Journal, January 23, 2005
Greenspan Hits the Trifecta: Dollar's Decline Inevitable
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, November 28, 2004
The Selling of the President: Will Myth Triumph Over Reality?
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, October 12, 2004
The Ownership Society: No Taxes for Owners, Only Workers
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 19, 2004
Seniors Are Paying the Price for Medicare Scams
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, September 9, 2004
The Unbearable Costs of Empire
Mark Weisbrot
BusinessWeek.com, July 29, 2004 En español
Exercise Fiscal Responsibility
Dean Baker and Heather Boushey
In These Times, July 4, 2004
Is The Fed Playing Election-Year Politics?
Mark Weisbrot
Jordan Times, April 1, 2004
Another Intelligence Failure at the White House
Dean Baker
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 17, 2004
Fed Should Have Acted in Stock Market Bubble
Mark Weisbrot
Charleston Gazette, January 18, 2004
Who to Blame When the Next Bubble Bursts
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 18, 2003
Threat of Deflation is Exaggerated
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, July 2, 2003
States Should be Allowed to Tax Internet Sales
Mark Weisbrot
Free Lance Star (VA), June 7, 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
A Haywire Patent System Picks Your Pocket at the Drugstore
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2003
Not Very Stimulating: The Bush Tax Cut
Dean Baker
Columbian (WA), Jan. 10, 2003
Bush's New Tax Cut: Another Dividend for the Rich
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee, January 6, 2003
Getting the Most Out of Homeland Security
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, November 21, 2002
Attack of the Clowns: The Real Bush is Back
Dean Baker
Commondreams.org, May 23, 2002
What About the Trade Deficit?
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, April 30, 2002
Focus Group Economics
Dean Baker
Feb. 12, 2002
Lying on Top
Dean Baker
Jan. 22, 2002
Campaign 2002: It's the Economy and It's Going to be Stupid
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 2002
"New Economy" Cycle Ends, But Myth Persists
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, November 27, 2001
New Economy Needs Old-Fashioned Stimulus
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Sep. 26, 2001
Return of the Lockbox
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Aug. 22, 2001
Time to Get Serious About the Economy
Mark Weisbrot
San Diego-Union Tribune, August 17, 2001
The Trust Fund Raiders
Dean Baker
Cleveland Plain-Dealer, July 19, 2001
The Liberal Establishment Was Wrong
Dean Baker
June 11 2001
Economy Needs Straight Talk - and Action
Mark Weisbrot
Idaho Falls Post Register, April 8, 2001
Hold On While I Sell
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
Miami Herald, March 26, 2001
Liberals Step to Bush's Barren Beat
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2001
Beyond Tax Relief for the Prosperous Few
Mark Weisbrot
Miami Herald, Feb. 13, 2001
How About Taxing Those Gamblers on Wall Street?
Dean Baker
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7, 2001
Bush's Tax Cut Would Lose in An Honest Debate
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Jan. 29, 2001
Clinton's Economic Legacy
Mark Weisbrot
Buffalo News, Jan. 14, 2001
New Year's Resolution for Congress
Mark Weisbrot
San-Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 31, 2000
Bursting Greenspan's Bubble
Mark Weisbrot
Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 10, 2000
Double Bubble - Headed for Trouble?
Mark Weisbrot
St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 23, 2000
Social Security: Too Important to Leave to the Politicians
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 2000
Here's One Way to Real Tax Freedom for Most
Dean Baker
Houston Chronicle, May 3, 2000
Old Rules Catching Up With 'New Economy'
Dean Baker
San Diego Tribune, April 18, 2000
A Blank Check from Washington for Colombia's Dirty War
Mark Weisbrot
Buffalo News, April 9, 2000
False Poverty: The Nation Can't Afford To Care For Its Elderly
Dean Baker
Aging Today, March/April 2000
RX for Medicare
Mark Weisbrot
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 13, 2000
Budget Baloney
Mark Weisbrot
Dollars and Sense, Feb. 2000
A Crash Course in Greenspan's Record
Mark Weisbrot
Houston Chronicle, Jan. 7, 2000
A Winning Issue that Nobody Wants to Run On
Mark Weisbrot
Houston Chronicle, Sep. 20, 1999
What Everyone Should Know About the Budget Debate
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Aug. 11, 1999
More Tax Cuts for Those Who Need It Least
Mark Weisbrot
Houston Chronicle, July 28, 1999
Clinton Dodges the War on Poverty
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, July 13, 1999
No Change at Treasury, But It Sure is Needed
Mark Weisbrot
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA), May 18, 1999
Greenspan Denounces "Protectionism" -- Is He Right?
Mark Weisbrot
Charlotte Observer, April 21, 1999
Greenspan Plays With Fire - Who Will Get Burned?
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, March 16, 2000
Costs of Empire
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Feb. 4, 1999
The President's New Legacy - Keeping It Honest
Mark Weisbrot
Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 1, 1999
President Clinton's Dumb Luck
Mark Weisbrot
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jan. 15, 1999
Elections Bury the Truth About Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
Washington Times, Nov. 3, 1998
Why No One Needs to Worry About Social Security or the National Debt
Mark Weisbrot
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 21, 1998
The Balanced Budget Shell Game
Mark Weisbrot
Chicago Sun Times, Aug. 2, 1997
Capital Gains: Enlarging a Tax Shelter
Mark Weisbrot
Chicago Tribune, July 15, 1997
Medicare Cuts: Courage or Cowardice?
Mark Weisbrot
Chicago Tribune, July 1, 1997
Social Security: The Phony Crisis
Mark Weisbrot
Portland Oregonian, April 26, 1997
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