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).
Labor
Trump’s Trade War with China Benefits Big Corporations—Not Ordinary Workers
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Feature
How the New York Times’ Budget Coverage Keeps the Public in the Dark
Numbers without any context only serve to mislead the reader.
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Labor
What the New York Times Gets Wrong About the Davos Man
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Feature
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.
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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.
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Viewpoint
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.
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Labor
Supporting Bernie Sanders Because He Supports Workers? David Brooks Thinks You Have a Mental Problem
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Labor
WashPost’s Support of Trans-Pacific Partnership Is In Line with a Tradition of Contempt for Workers
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Labor
Workers Are Losing Manufacturing Jobs Because of Policy, Not NYT’s Mysterious “Tectonic Forces”
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Labor
For New York Times, U.S. Labor Abuses At Home and Abroad Are a Thing of Decades Past
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Feature
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.
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Feature
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.
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Viewpoint
Productivity: Is The Boom Over?
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Dispatch
Victory in the Medicare Drug War?
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Feature
Numbers Before Politics
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The Falling Dollar
The solution, not the problem
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Feature
Cutting Our Benefits
Bush begins second term by attacking Social Security
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The Economy
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The Bush Budget
More for the military and more deficits
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Feature
Buy In Now, Pay Later
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Feature
Drug Deals
The profits in patents
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Dispatch
Market Up, Jobs Down
Working people face more hard times
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Feature
Economic Fix
How to salvage a broken economy
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Feature
Bursting Bubbles
Why the economy will go from bad to worse
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Viewpoint
Market Opportunities
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