On AlterNet: dean baker

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Crazy Economists Are Still Defending The Wall Street Bailout As The Recession Gets Worse

Dean Baker, AlterNet. August 6, 2010.

Economists are still spinning fairy tales so they can celebrate bank bailouts. Too bad everybody's still broke and out of work.

False Profits: We Will Be Suffering from Greenspan and Bernanke's Ineptitude for a Long Time

Dean Baker, PoliPoint Press. February 9, 2010.

An $8 trillion housing bubble fostered by the Federal Reserve has burst, and with it much of the wealth of America's middle class.

Big Banks Are Feeding Like Parasites on the Govt.'s Money

Dean Baker, Boston Review. February 4, 2010.

Big bank CEOs like to trumpet free-market ideology, but they depend on the government for survival in good times and bad.

GRITtv: Dean Baker, Reed Abelson and Teresa Ghilarducci on the Real Cost of Health Care Reform

Laura Flanders, GRITtv AlterNet: Video. July 8, 2009.

Laura Flanders and Co. discuss whether Congress is willing to make the necessary changes to fundamentally overhaul the health care system.

Why You May Be Stuck Holding the Bill for the Largest Taxpayer Rip Off

Dean Baker, AlterNet. June 23, 2009.

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.

Geithner Bank Plan Faces New Wave of Criticism

Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. April 9, 2009.

Economists say the proposal is likely to produce major losses for taxpayers as banks and investors game the system.

We're Still Getting Screwed: Geithner Plan Will Make the Rich Richer!

Dean Baker, AlterNet. April 1, 2009.

Some hedge and equity fund managers could make hundreds of millions or even billions off the Geithner plan.

What Will Keep 9 Million People from Losing Their Homes?

ZP Heller, Open Left AlterNet: Video. February 18, 2009.

And why doesn't Michelle Malkin care about people facing foreclosure?

OK Barack, Time to Hit the Ground Running

AlterNetNovember 5, 2008.

Michael Ratner, John Cusack, Dahlia Lithwick, Roberto Lovato, Antonia Juhasz, Amie Newman, Dean Baker and many others on where we should go.

A Very Scary Economy Today on Meet the Bloggers (1pm ET/10am PT)

Robert Greenwald, Meet the Bloggers AlterNet: Video. October 31, 2008.

Featuring economist Dean Baker and bloggers Isaiah Poole and Hale Stewart.