Stories by Dean Baker
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Falling home prices, rising foreclosures rates, and a slowing economy have created a perfect storm for U.S. homeowners.
Posted on May 15, 2008
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
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
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
The government wants to hand banks tens of billions of dollars by buying up their bad mortgage debt.
Posted on Feb 26, 2008
The debt crisis is moving into high-end loans.
Posted on Feb 6, 2008
If a government that protects ordinary people is a "nanny state," then one protecting the super-rich deserves the title of "super nanny state."
Posted on Jan 29, 2008
If policy-makers would think outside the box, a stimulus package to mitigate the recession might have a real impact.
Posted on Jan 17, 2008
When it comes to economic policy, only one of the Democratic frontrunners seems set to challenge corporate power.
Posted on Dec 26, 2007
All of us, as taxpayers, have done our part to ensure that Wall Street's fat cats have a happy holiday season.
Posted on Dec 24, 2007
Even long-time Greenspan watchers had to be impressed by his latest effort at self-vindication.
Posted on Dec 20, 2007
The cost of medical care in the US is becoming so ridiculous it invites an absurd solution: fly Americans to hospitals overseas.
Posted on Nov 12, 2007
Housing policy at all levels of government pushed people into homeownership even as it should have been evident that people were buying homes at bubble-inflated prices.
Posted on Nov 12, 2007
Tax avoidance, rather than savvy entrepreneurial spirit, is the key to the retailer's achievement.
Posted on Oct 30, 2007
The granny bashers, intent on privatizing Social Security, routinely play fast and loose with the facts.
Posted on Oct 16, 2007
Last week, a jury determined that Jammie Thomas, a single mother living in Minnesota, should pay $222,000 to the recording industry for allowing other people to download 24 songs off her computer. Are you next?
Posted on Oct 9, 2007
Perhaps there is nothing that can be done to change the balance of forces within Congress at the moment and, as a result, millions of kids will go without health insurance.
Posted on Sep 25, 2007
Skyrocketing health costs, not the Baby Boomers, are the real problem.
Posted on Sep 20, 2007
The growth of the housing bubble made this sort of collapse inevitable, just as the crash of the stock bubble was inevitable.
Posted on Sep 12, 2007
For decades, the U.S. government has been at war with organized labor. It's time to level the playing field.
Posted on Aug 27, 2007
A weekly roundup of Dean Baker's commentary on economic reporting.
Posted on Aug 13, 2007
And Working Americans go from the pan to the fire.
Posted on Aug 9, 2007
A somber tour of the housing market.
Posted on Jun 30, 2007
Economist Dean Baker's new book lays waste to the Reagan Revolution's unprecedented assault on working Americans' economic security.
Posted on Apr 27, 2007
If Bush's attempt to privatize Social Security is stopped, then he's a lame duck for the rest of his term.
Posted on Dec 13, 2004
The stock bubble is long gone, but the dollar and housing bubbles live on. Should they burst, the economy will deteriorate even further.
Posted on May 28, 2003
It's a myth that conservatives support free markets and progressives want government solutions.
Posted on Nov 16, 2001
