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The Senate’s decision on approving Ben Bernanke for a second term as chair of the Federal Reserve Board is coming down to…
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.
President Obama proposed a tax on the country’s largest banks to help recover the money lost under the TARP program. This tax…
Andrew Alexander, the Washington Post’s ombudsman, gave an argument about the Post’s use of copy produced by the Peter Peterson funded "Fiscal…
Millions of people around the country have been treated to the anti-debt ads run by one-time tobacco industry lobbyist Richard Berman. Mr.…
There is a growing movement in both the United States and around the world for taxing financial speculation. The logic is simple:…
The United States has more than 15 million people unemployed. This is not their fault. It is the fault of really bad…
The country is being bombarded with stories claiming that record budget deficits threaten our children’s future and jeopardize the credibility of the…
There are more than 15 million people unemployed and almost 2 million people set to lose their homes to foreclosure this year.…
As most of us are preparing for the holidays, a small clique in the Senate, with their collaborators in the Washington punditry,…
The unemployment rate is 10.2 percent and virtually certain to rise even higher in the months ahead. Even with the prospect of…