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.
Other articles by this author
Eric Holder: The Reason Robert Rubin Isn't Behind Bars
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Mysteries of Inequality Are Only Mysterious to Elites
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
State and Local Pension Funds Face a Shortfall Equal to 0.3 Percent of GDP
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | News Analysis
The Myth That Sold the Financial Bailout
By Dean Baker, Campaign for America's Future | Op-Ed
Obamacare and Family Values: Parents Get to Stay Home With Children
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Inflation Fighters Want to Increase the Debt Burden on Our Children
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Pace of Job Growth Slows Further in August
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Labor Day Victories to Celebrate
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Should Taxpayers Subsidize the Pay of College Presidents?
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | Op-Ed
New York Times Condemns French for Believing In Economics
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Truth Has No Place in the Attack of Inflation Hawks
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Robert Rubin and Martin Feldstein Discover Bubbles
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Entitlement of the Very Rich
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Inflation Hawks: The Job Killers at the Fed
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Job Growth Slows in July
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | News Analysis
Finance in the United States: Promoting Inequality and Waste
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Cheap Talk at the Fed
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Fun Accounting and the Export-Import Bank
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
GDP and the Public Sector
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | Op-Ed
The Good News About Obamacare in the June Jobs Report
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Strong Job Growth Continues in June
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | News Analysis
Will India Be the Uber of the Pharmaceutical Industry?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Sharing Economy and the Mystery of the Mystery of Inequality
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Doing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Why Do Coal Mining Jobs Matter So Much More Than Jobs Lost to Trade?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Wall Street Pension Scam
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The New York Times Turns Paul Krugman Into His Opposite
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
What Problem Is Privatizing Fannie and Freddie Meant to Solve?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Economic Policy in a Post-Piketty World
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Hedge Fund Managers Tax Break: Because Wall Streeters Want Your Money
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Ending Tax Breaks for Super-Rich Can Make Tax Day Fun for Rest of Us
By Dean Baker, The Fresno Bee | Op-Ed
Obamacare: First Fruits for Workers?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Tax Code in Action: Charity Starts at the Top
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Texas-California Job Growth Derby
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Money in Hyping the Generational War Story
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The New York Times Budget Reporting Looks Like RT on Ukraine
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Economy Adds 175,000 Jobs in February, Despite Bad Weather
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
President Obama, the Do-Gooder
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Is Obamacare Bad News for the "It's Hard to Find Good Help" Crowd?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Corporate Cronyism: The Secret to Overpaid CEOs
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Good Jobs News on the Affordable Care Act
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The Attack of the Robots: Economists' Silly Fantasies
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
President Obama's Inequality Story
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Warnings From NAFTA
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Medical Travel: If Bill Gates Wanted to Do Something Good for the World
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Obamacare and Those Invincible Youngsters
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Centrists Have No Right to Lecture Anyone on Growth
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Inequality: Government Is a Perp, Not a Bystander
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The End of the Assault on Social Security and Medicare
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
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