Dean Baker
Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He is a regular Truthout columnist and a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.
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Pension Theft: Class War Goes to the Next Stage
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Opinion
Dean Baker | Everyday Low Wages at Walmart: Brought to You by Government Policy
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
More Pain From the ACA: Spending Less on Health Care
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
No One Died at Healthcare.gov: The Phony Crisis of Obamacare
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The Obama Pledge on Keeping Your Insurance
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
NYT Endorses Imaginary TPP Deal
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
The Weak Economy and Deficit Reduction: Deniers and Terrorists
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Trade Agreement for Protectionists
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
After Budget Deal, Time to Move Forward
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Dean Baker | The Tea Party and the New York Times Shut Down the Government
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Will Seniors Have to Pay for President Obama’s Victory on Budget Standoff?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Debt Default: The Only Way to Get to Full Employment?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Obamacare: It's Better Than You Think
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The Simple Reason for the Long Downturn: Housing Bubble Burst
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The Financial Crisis and the Second Great Depression Myth
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Fed Taper Talk Bursts Bubble
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Pinching Pensions to Keep Wall Street Fat and Happy
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
AP Goes Off the Deep End With Deficit Scold David Walker
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Big Silicon Valley Super Powerball Lottery
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Dean Baker | The Smart Boys: Larry Summers and Jeff Bezos
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Glass-Steagall Now: Because the Banks Own Washington
By Dean Baker, Campaign for America's Future | Op-Ed
The Economy Is Awful and Larry Summers Should Not Be Fed Chair
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Cruel Arithmetic and President Obama's Big Speech
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Edward Snowden and Financial Speculation Taxes
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The Return of Larry Summers?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The 1% Want Your Kidney: Tales of Redistribution
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Does the Treasury Secretary Have to Be a Lobbyist for Wall Street in Europe?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Baffling Budget Numbers: Making Reporters Do Their Jobs
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Celebrate the Defeat of the Granny Bashers!
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The Trade Deal Scam
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Economy Adds 175,000 Jobs in May, Unemployment at 7.6 Percent
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Student Loans on the Cheap
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Social Security and Medicare Reports Little Changed From 2012
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Excel Spreadsheet Error: Lessons from the Reinhart-Rogoff Controversy
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Moody’s Playing Dangerous Games With Public Pension Funds
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Logic Deficit: Why Were Reinhart-Rogoff Ever Taken Seriously?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Deficits Are Bad and the Sun Goes Around the Earth
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Corporate Governance and CEO Pay: The Cesspool at the Top
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
How Much Unemployment Did Reinhart and Rogoff's Arithmetic Mistake Cause?
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | News Analysis
Dean Baker | India Strikes Blow Against Big Pharma
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
As Profit Shares Hit New Highs, Washington Focuses on Abuse of Disability System
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Senate Unanimously Votes Against Cuts to Social Security: Media Don’t Notice
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Worms, Pond Scum and Economists
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Big Bank Immunity: When Do We Crack Down on Wall Street?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Job Growth Picks Up Steam in February
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | News Analysis
The Sequester Is President Obama's Fault
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Macho Men, Social Security and the Chained CPI
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Minimum Wage: Who Decided Workers Should Fall Behind?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Fix the Debt and a Wall Street Sales Tax
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Tax Games and Redistributing Income Upward
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Timothy Geithner Saved Wall Street, Not the Economy
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Aaron Swartz, Financial Fraud, and the Justice Department
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Michelle Rhee's Failing Report Card
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research | Report
The 3 Percent Cut to Social Security, a.k.a. the Chained CPI
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Paul Krugman for Treasury Secretary
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Obama's Tax Threshold Concession Bodes Ill for Debt Ceiling Talks
By Dean Baker, The Guardian | Op-Ed
No Santa Claus and Bill Clinton Was Not an Economic Savior
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Michigan Republicans Deny Police Officers and Firefighters the Right to Work
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
If the Budget Debate Had a Nate Silver
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
How Washington Insiders Bar Economic Reality From Political Debate
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Elites Demanding Austerity Also Ignored Housing Bubble
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Romney's Global Warming Joke Should Haunt Him
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Economy Adds 171,000 Jobs
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | Report
Is the Budget "Crisis" History?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Clinton Criticizes Voters for Not Appreciating the Great Economy He's Given Them
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The National Debt and Our Children: How Dumb Does Washington Think We Are?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Social Security: President Obama's Biggest Failure in Last Week's Debate
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Unemployment Falls Below 8.0 Percent for the First Time Since January 2009
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | News Analysis
Spain and Greece Are Being Forced to Suffer to Save Germany From High Inflation
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Debt Worries: Economists Fail Arithmetic, Again
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Does President Obama Want to Cut Social Security by 3 Percent?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Canada Proves the Decline of Unions is Not Inevitable
By Dean Baker, Al Jazeera English | Op-Ed
Farewell to Bill
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Romney's Success at Bain Capital: The Scam as Business Model
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The Pacific Free Trade Deal That's Anything but Free
By Dean Baker, The Guardian UK | News Analysis
Paul Ryan and the Which Way Is Up Speech
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Romney Pledges a Fed That Will Screw Workers
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
"Courage" in Washington Doesn't Have the Same Meaning
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Rep. Paul Ryan's Far-Right Agenda: The Media Can't Take the Truth
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Beating Back the CEO Attack on Social Security and Medicare
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The CEO Plan to Steal Your Social Security and Medicare
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Raising the Minimum Wage Is Cheap and Easy
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
California Gold Rush? Righting Underwater Mortgages
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The Dirt on Erskine Bowles: The Tame Half of Bowles-Simpson
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Economy Adds 80,000 Jobs in June; Unemployment Steady at 8.2 Percent
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | News Analysis