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Suppose that the federal government decided to give every newborn baby $200,000. That might seem like an extremely generous gift. However, by…
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.
Progressives should be feeling good right now. There is clear evidence that we are winning on two really big issues. Starting with…
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The current craze in DC policy circles is to create a "systematic risk regulator" to make sure that the country never experiences…
The media coverage of the auto bailouts has focused on the need for union autoworkers to take big pay cuts, causing them…
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Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, is very upset with the TARP. Last fall, Mr. Blankfein borrowed $10 billion through the…
It is often said that the there are few forces as destructive as the power of bad economics. Rarely has this been…
The quest to increase taxes on the wealthy is not a gratuitous attack on upper income households; it is driven by the…
This is a rude question to many people, which is why it is so important that it be asked. The Obama administration…