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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.
The loss claimed by the Citigroup study is clearly wrong and Donald Trump is wrong to be using it
The Republican Tax Plan
The End of the Rule of Law in the United States
Sloppy Thinking For The Educated
Trump is in effect being allowed to pick his own auditor, with no congressional oversight
Getting U.S. health care costs down is a herculean task; getting doctors’ pay in line is a big part of the solution
As Republicans attempt a last-ditch repeal of Obamacare, Democrats have joined them to overwhelmingly pass massive spending on the military and war
The complete lack of interest in patent monopolies shows the deficit hawks are not motivated by issues of generational fairness
Trump’s plan would mean ‘a huge increase in the budget deficit primarily to give tax cuts to the richest people in the country’