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Fear the Fiscal Future, WSJ Warns
Dean Baker
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.
Dean previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the OECD's Trade Union Advisory Council.
Over the last four decades our trade policy had been quite explicitly designed to put steelworkers and other manufacturing workers in direct competition with low-paid workers in the developing world
It would be good if the corporate media would drop silly moralizing about lower deficits somehow being good. Part of that change would be to stop making up stories about Republicans’ commitments to balanced budgets
Let’s See How Low the Unemployment Rate Can Go
It’s Not What It Should Be
In spite of Trump’s get-tough rhetoric, the trade deficit actually rose by $50 billion in 2017 to $571 billion. It now stands at just under 3.0 percent of GDP
The Republican Party is steering the us in the opposite direction of proven paths to growth: well-educated workers and infrastructure investments
Corporate America is clearly putting on a public relations show to thank the Republicans who pushed through the tax cut
Liberal states have the weapons they need to fight back against this pernicious Republican tax plan. The question is whether they will try or just accept yet another massive defeat without a battle
There has been a huge effort to portray public employee pension plans as both overly generous and hugely underfunded. Neither is true