Dean Baker
Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and codirector 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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Economy Adds 151,000 Jobs in January
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
If Bill Gates Turned to Philanthropy: Publicly Funded Clinical Drug Trials
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Wall Street
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The State of Our Economy: What It Needs vs. What Washington Is Willing to Do
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
December Job Numbers: Is the Great Vacation Coming to an End?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Another Reason Economists Don't Know Much About the Economy: The Story of the Robots
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Treating Global Warming Denialism as a Scandal
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Note to the Candidates: Don't Forget About the Federal Reserve Board
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Holiday Season Giving to Jeff Bezos
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Fed Competes With Robots for Taking Our Jobs
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Federal Reserve Board's 8 Percent Hike in the Social Security Tax
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Big Insurance's Health-Care Scam for the Holidays
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
President Obama's Forum: High Theater on High Drug Prices
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The TPP's Children's Table: Labor Rights and Currency
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Federal Government as Employer: High Road or Bottom Feeder?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Paul Ryan Wants to Shut Down the Government, Permanently
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Democrats Get a Gift From the Fed
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Getting the Export-Import Bank to Pay Dividends
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Donald Trump and the Federal Reserve Board
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Job Growth Surprisingly Weak in September
By Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Janet Yellen Shows the Need for a 4 Percent Unemployment Target
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Will President Obama Stand Up to the Drug Thugs?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Lehman Day: Making Fun of the Second Great Depression Crowd
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Labor Unions: The Folks Who Gave You the Weekend
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Job Growth Weakens in August
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Dean Baker | The China Syndrome: Bubble Trouble
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Federal Reserve Board and the War for Poverty
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Dean Baker | China's Currency Devaluation and the Federal Reserve Board
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Disciplining Corporate Directors: The Real Culprits in CEO Pay
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Job Growth Remains Strong in July
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Dean Baker | Bernie Sanders, Open Borders and a Serious Route to Global Equality
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Social Security Trustees' Report Lacks the Usual Panic
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Wolfgang Schäuble, the Hero of the Greek Austerity Crisis?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Hard Work With Jeb Bush
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Greece and the Euro After the Referendum
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Wall Street Sales Tax Moves Away From the Children's Table
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Job Growth Slows in June
By Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Dean Baker | The Federal Reserve Board, Jobs and the Rewriting of Economic History
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Drug Patents and President Clinton
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Victory Over Fast-Track TPP Must Be Cautious of Rich People's Rules
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Trade Deficit and the Weak Job Market
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Job Growth Picks Up in May
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
The Federal Reserve Board's Payroll Tax on Our Children
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Bernie Sanders Takes It to Wall Street With Financial Transactions Tax
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Report
Dean Baker | The Incredible Arrogance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Crowd
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The March Trade Deficit and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Rising Trade Deficit Slows Job Growth in Manufacturing
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Celebrating the Flash Crash With a Wall Street Sales Tax
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Battle Over the Trans-Pacific Partnership and "Fast Track" Gets Hot
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Washington Post Tells Readers the Elite Will Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Pass Their Trade Deals
By Dean Baker, CEPR | Op-Ed
A Simple Progressive Economic Agenda for Hillary Clinton (or Anyone Else)
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Bonanza for the Super-Rich: The Fund Managers' Tax Break
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Weak March Job Numbers: An Opportunity to Put Pressure on the Fed
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Don't Worry About the Robots; the Fed Might Take Your Job
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Scott Walker Ends Freedom of Contract in Wisconsin
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Supreme Court and the Democrats' Preemptive Surrender on Obamacare
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
February's Strongest Wage Growth in Lowest Paying Sectors
By Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
The Federal Reserve Board's Plan to Kill Jobs
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Trade Crazy: The Push for Fast-Track Trade Authority
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Economy Adds 257,000 Jobs in January
By Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Is Hillary Clinton in the Bottom 3 Percent? Turning the Corner on CEO Pay
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Why Rand Paul Is Wrong About Social Security Disability
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Democrats Take on Wall Street With Financial Transactions Tax
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Dean Baker | Idea for Tackling Inequality Number 27,653: Stop Subsidizing It
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Does the University of Michigan's New Football Coach Need Food Stamps?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
New Year's Resolutions: Ten Ways to Combat Upward Redistribution of Income
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Trade Agreement Pinatas
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Economic Policy Myths of 2014: Dead and Enduring
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Benefits of Obamacare: More People Are Able to Work Less
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Paid Vacation Route to Full Employment
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Public Schools and Logic 101 for George Will
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Seven Years After: Why This Recovery Is Still a Turkey
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Paying Off Student Debt Is Saving
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
Kevin Drum Doesn't Like Postal Banking: A Reply
By Dean Baker, CEPR | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Problem of "Stupid" in Economics
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Election Results Indicate Huge Mandate for New Trade Pacts
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Will Democrats Be Able to Talk Seriously About the Economy in 2016?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Germany Leaves the Euro Zone, and the Problem Is?
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
The Post Tells Us the Economy Is SO Complicated
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
The Ebola Vaccine, Traffic Congestion and Global Warming
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Unmentionable Trade Deficit Doesn't Appear Again
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed