Dean Baker - In These Times

Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and co-author of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Trump’s Trade War with China Benefits Big Corporations—Not Ordinary Workers

How the New York Times’ Budget Coverage Keeps the Public in the Dark

Numbers without any context only serve to mislead the reader.

What the New York Times Gets Wrong About the Davos Man

New York Times Invents Left-Leaning Economists to Attack Bernie Sanders

The Times pieces misleads readers into thinking there is more skepticism about Sanders' plan among lefty economists than there actually is.

The New Yorker’s Blind Shooting at Bernie Sanders

Sanders' appeal to millennials isn't "retro"—it's because eight years after the Great Recession, young people are still feeling the squeeze.

The New Yorker Wants You To Be Afraid of the Labour Party’s Jeremy Corbyn—Very Afraid

"Quantitative easing" isn't a far-left fantasy—it's mainstream economics.

Supporting Bernie Sanders Because He Supports Workers? David Brooks Thinks You Have a Mental Problem

WashPost’s Support of Trans-Pacific Partnership Is In Line with a Tradition of Contempt for Workers

Workers Are Losing Manufacturing Jobs Because of Policy, Not NYT’s Mysterious “Tectonic Forces”

For New York Times, U.S. Labor Abuses At Home and Abroad Are a Thing of Decades Past

The NYT Is Wrong: Greece Shouldn’t Accept Endless Depression Because Default Might Be Painful

The paper of record says Greeks should look to the example of Argentina's 2001 default. But that default actually seems to have tremendously benefited the country.

Americans Clearly Aren’t Buying into Democrats’ Empty Economic Promises

The Democrats have failed to put forward a program that offers real improvement in the average person's life.

Productivity: Is The Boom Over?

Victory in the Medicare Drug War?

Numbers Before Politics

The Falling Dollar

The solution, not the problem

Cutting Our Benefits

Bush begins second term by attacking Social Security

The Bush Budget

More for the military and more deficits

Buy In Now, Pay Later

The profits in patents

Market Up, Jobs Down

Working people face more hard times

How to salvage a broken economy

Bursting Bubbles

Why the economy will go from bad to worse

Market Opportunities