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The Obama administration push to get Larry Summers as Federal Reserve Board Chair is moving into overdrive, as they pull out all…
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 prospect of seeing Larry Summers as chair of the Fed has angered many policy types in Washington and across the country.…
In the last few weeks Edward Snowden has been holed in Moscow's airport trying to negotiate terms of asylum with various countries…
It is widely recognized that economists are not very good at economics. That is why we are looking at a decade of…
The 195,000 new jobs reported for June was somewhat better than most economists had expected. The job gains, together with upward revisions…
The vast majority of the public does not have a clue about where their tax dollars go. Polls consistently show that the…
In his news conference following the Fed’s meeting last week, Chairman Ben Bernanke announced plans to end quantitative easing as soon as…
By now almost everyone knows of the famous Excel spreadsheet error by Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff. It turns out…
Many highly-respected Washington types have been running around for the last three years yelling that because of its large budget deficits, the…
The effort to blame the awful plight of the young on Social Security and Medicare is picking up steam. In the last…