Stories by Dean Baker
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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 Dec 9, 2009, Source: TruthOut.org
The halls of Congress are infected with financial industry lobbyists looking to block necessary changes to our broken financial system.
Posted on Nov 25, 2009, Source: CounterPunch
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 Nov 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet
This is a case where the simple facts and persistent grassroots pressure may overcome the political power of a major industry.
Posted on Oct 27, 2009, Source: TruthOut.org
So far we've seen economic recovery for the few, while the many live in continued pain.
Posted on Oct 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It might -- and that would be a good thing for business owners, manufacturing and those who are self-employed.
Posted on Aug 7, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
Politicians and pundits in Washington are either too ignorant, dishonest, or scared to talk about the expenditures that this economy needs.
Posted on Jul 16, 2009, Source: The Guardian
If the public plan is bad, then people will just stay with the options currently available in the private sector.
Posted on Jul 8, 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.
Posted on Jun 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Insurers don't want to compete with a well-run public plan. Let's hope they have to.
Posted on Jun 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Our health care system isn't getting fixed because the people who run it like it just the way it is.
Posted on May 19, 2009, Source: AlterNet
What the new Chrysler will be getting from abroad is technology and top management.
Posted on May 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Wall Street crew relied on its political power to ensure that the rules remained rigged, even though their crooked deck wrecked the economy.
Posted on Apr 21, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Some hedge and equity fund managers could make hundreds of millions or even billions off the Geithner plan.
Posted on Apr 1, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Officials were wrong to let Lehman Brothers go bankrupt. Now they wrongly assume that all banks are too big to fail.
Posted on Mar 18, 2009, Source: Comment Is Free
The top priority for the anti-Granny lobby is to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Posted on Mar 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It's time for the government to prioritize the wellbeing of people over the wellbeing of insurance companies.
Posted on Mar 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Obama recognizes that the public is way ahead of the pundits in seeing that the federal govt. is the only thing capable of generating a recovery.
Posted on Mar 5, 2009, Source: The Guardian
Here's a cheap and effective form of economic stimulus -- tell America's baby boomers that their welfare benefits are safe.
Posted on Feb 20, 2009, Source: Comment Is Free
Unfortunately, many liberals have not moved beyond Lyndon Johnson's thinking on the role of the government in the economy.
Posted on Feb 9, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Anyone with common sense, a grasp of simple arithmetic and a desire to go against the consensus should have seen the financial crisis coming.
Posted on Feb 7, 2009, Source: PoliPoint Press
If the economy begins to turn around on Obama's watch, the GOP can look forward to decades in the political wilderness.
Posted on Jan 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
For Republicans, one lesson of the New Deal is that it left the Democrats firmly in power for more than 20 years.
Posted on Jan 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It is hard not to notice that two of the regulators who stand out for doing the right thing in this incredible financial mess are women.
Posted on Dec 27, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
Millions of people may lose their homes and life's savings, all because the economists who are supposed to know better didn't.
Posted on Dec 12, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
There are a lot of complicated plans being discussed, but sometimes the simplest solution to a problem is best.
Posted on Nov 19, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
Extending health care insurance can be an effective stimulus that will provide an immediate boost to the economy.
Posted on Nov 6, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
Greenspan thinks that if the geniuses running the Fed couldn't predict the meltdown, nobody could.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
In the Flat Earth version, the real villains in the story were the public/private mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Posted on Oct 15, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
A broader stimulus package is desperately needed to right a listing economic ship.
Posted on Oct 12, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future
Most workers in the country have just seen the equivalent of a 2 percentage point increase in their tax rate, and it has gotten almost no attention.
Posted on Sep 10, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
The housing crisis is a result of reckless deregulation by specific individuals.
Posted on Aug 27, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
The housing bill will likely help less than five percent of the families facing foreclosure over the next two years.
Posted on Jul 29, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
The two candidates are worlds apart on the most pressing domestic issue of our time.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
Private sector job gains in the Bush years may fall below 3 million by November.
Posted on Jul 5, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
That's right; Congress wants to take away money from low-income renters to help bankers who made bad loans.
Posted on May 20, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
Falling home prices, rising foreclosures rates, and a slowing economy have created a perfect storm for U.S. homeowners.
Posted on May 15, 2008, Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
The centerpiece of the "Foreclosure Prevention Act" approved by the Senate is a tax break for the homebuilders and the mortgage bankers.
Posted on Apr 10, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
Rather than taking this opportunity to tighten the screws, many progressives are actually cheering on plans to bail out the ridiculously rich.
Posted on Mar 24, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org
Presidents don't deserve all the blame (or credit) for the economy's performance, but Bush turned a blind eye to the mounting economic crisis.
Posted on Mar 4, 2008, Source: The American Prospect
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