Stories by Dean Baker

The centerpiece of the "Foreclosure Prevention Act" approved by the Senate is a tax break for the homebuilders and the mortgage bankers.

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.

The debt crisis is moving into high-end loans.

If policy-makers would think outside the box, a stimulus package to mitigate the recession might have a real impact.

All of us, as taxpayers, have done our part to ensure that Wall Street's fat cats have a happy holiday season.

The cost of medical care in the US is becoming so ridiculous it invites an absurd solution: fly Americans to hospitals overseas.

Tax avoidance, rather than savvy entrepreneurial spirit, is the key to the retailer's achievement.

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?

Skyrocketing health costs, not the Baby Boomers, are the real problem.

For decades, the U.S. government has been at war with organized labor. It's time to level the playing field.

And Working Americans go from the pan to the fire.

Economist Dean Baker's new book lays waste to the Reagan Revolution's unprecedented assault on working Americans' economic security.

The stock bubble is long gone, but the dollar and housing bubbles live on. Should they burst, the economy will deteriorate even further.