Stories by Dean Baker
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of the new book, The End of Loser Liberalism?
Posted on May 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Mitt Romney's former partner at Bain Capital has written a book that reveals much about how the super-rich think -- and it's not pretty.
Posted on May 1, 2012, Source: Nation of Change
China is rapidly passing us by. But Americans - and their leaders - refuse to come to terms with what this means for our future.
Posted on Mar 4, 2012, Source: Comment Is Free
Tucked in the small print of the payroll tax bill is a work-sharing plan that could save more than a million jobs this year.
Posted on Feb 27, 2012, Source: TruthOut.org
The Republicans are hoping to blame this rise in the price of gas on Obama's environmentally friendly policies. But here are two major problems with their story.
Posted on Feb 21, 2012, Source: The Guardian
The Obama Administration, working with Ben Bernanke at the Fed, deserves credit for preventing a financial meltdown. But a second Great Depression was never in the cards.
Posted on Dec 5, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
SOPA would require every web site in the country to become unpaid copyright enforcement officers for Time Warner, Disney and The Washington Post, among others.
Posted on Nov 15, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Right-wingers somehow think that seniors with incomes under $30,000 a year must sacrifice to balance the budget.
Posted on Jul 11, 2011, Source: The Guardian
Pursuing a plan to kill social security, politicians are relying on a credulous public and compliant media to ramp up debt panic.
Posted on Jun 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to create a prize fund that would buy up drug patents, so that drugs could be sold at their free market price.
Posted on Apr 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Paul Ryan's attack against the middle class might have been expected to draw an outraged response. Instead, the punditry rallied around the GOP Rep.
Posted on Apr 1, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
The wealth redistributed to the top 1 percent over the last 30 years is roughly enough to double the income of all those in the bottom half of the distribution.
Posted on Feb 3, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Bankrupt states could tell teachers, highway patrol officers, and other public employees that they're not getting the pensions they were expecting, even if already retired.
Posted on Jan 20, 2011, Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
Th folks trying to slash Social Security face enormous political opposition and have no good argument for their case. They're going to have to lie, cheat, steal to do it.
Posted on Jan 12, 2011, Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
Obama's picks of Bill Daley and Gene Sperling will likely result in tens of millions of people across the country experience serious economic hardship.
Posted on Dec 20, 2010, Source: AlterNet
We have to push President Obama to announce in advance that he will never sign a debt ceiling bill that includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
Posted on Dec 13, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The establishment is telling us that if Congress doesn’t approve the package Obama negotiated with the GOP, it will be the end of the world!
Posted on Nov 14, 2010, Source: Boston Review
If the current deficit were larger, we would have more jobs and growth. But many deficit hawks seem more interested in cutting benefits than economic truths.
Posted on Oct 18, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The highest rates of foreclosure are on the quick and dirty loans made at the peak of the bubble.
Posted on Oct 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
A modest tax on Wall Street financial speculation could raise more than $150 billion a year -- money that would go a long way toward funding a serious jobs agenda.
Posted on Oct 5, 2010, Source: TruthOut.org
The only way that the deficit hawks can make good on the goal of reducing foreign borrowing is by slowing growth and raising the unemployment rate.
Posted on Sep 21, 2010, Source: The Guardian
The same crew that tapped our pockets two years ago is eagerly pitching the line that their bailout was good for us.
Posted on Aug 6, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Economists are still spinning fairy tales so they can celebrate bank bailouts. Too bad everybody's still broke and out of work.
Posted on Jul 20, 2010, Source: ISN
15 million are unemployed, but unfortunately none of the people responsible for the recession are in that category.
Posted on Jul 7, 2010, Source: The Guardian
From now until Nov. 2, the Republican Party will be the party of unemployment.
Posted on May 28, 2010, Source: AlterNet
There has been little change in personnel and no acknowledgment of error at the central banks whose incompetence was responsible for the crisis.
Posted on Apr 29, 2010, Source: Comment Is Free
Worried about the deficit? Wall Street is the problem, not Social Security.
Posted on Apr 1, 2010, Source: Democracy Now!
The biggest winners in Obama's latest foreclosure prevention plan are the banks that created this mess.
Posted on Mar 9, 2010, Source: TruthOut.org
Robert Rubin put in place all the pieces that set up the economy for the disaster that we are now living through. Why can't he get off the stage?
Posted on Feb 9, 2010, Source: PoliPoint Press
An $8 trillion housing bubble fostered by the Federal Reserve has burst, and with it much of the wealth of America's middle class.
Posted on Feb 4, 2010, Source: Boston Review
Big bank CEOs like to trumpet free-market ideology, but they depend on the government for survival in good times and bad.
Posted on Jan 26, 2010, Source: The Guardian
It isn't Bernanke's job to bail out Wall Street at the expense of the rest of the country. It is his job to prevent the growth of dangerous bubbles. Time to go.
Posted on Dec 9, 2009, Source: TruthOut.org
It is absolutely unacceptable to have 15 million people unemployed just because the people who call the shots are too dumb to figure out how to get them back to work.
Posted on Nov 25, 2009, Source: CounterPunch
The halls of Congress are infected with financial industry lobbyists looking to block necessary changes to our broken financial system.
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet
All the projections show that the unemployment rate is likely to continue to rising for the immediate future and remain high for years to come.
Posted on Oct 27, 2009, Source: TruthOut.org
This is a case where the simple facts and persistent grassroots pressure may overcome the political power of a major industry.
Posted on Oct 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet
So far we've seen economic recovery for the few, while the many live in continued pain.
Posted on Aug 7, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
It might -- and that would be a good thing for business owners, manufacturing and those who are self-employed.
Posted on Jul 16, 2009, Source: The Guardian
Politicians and pundits in Washington are either too ignorant, dishonest, or scared to talk about the expenditures that this economy needs.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
If the public plan is bad, then people will just stay with the options currently available in the private sector.
Posted on Jun 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The health care industry is getting money out of our pockets because their friends in Congress have made sure the money flows from us to them.
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