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Many economic analysts have seized on several recent economic reports to claim that the economy has bottomed out and that the upturn…
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.
Apparently we have to give them more than $200 million in bonuses to give them enough incentive to lose taxpayers billions of…
As a result of incredible economic mismanagement and the greed and incompetence of the financial industry, the country is in the worst…
It is in fact very difficult to see any policy reason why the Obama administration feels more need to run the auto…
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wants to have the government lend up to a trillion dollars to hedge funds, private equity, funds and…
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The new consensus among the experts who missed the housing bubble (EMHB) is that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s plan to subsidize the…
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s latest bank bailout plan is another Rube Goldberg contraption intended to funnel taxpayer dollars to bankrupt banks, without…
The debate over the A.I.G. bonuses is class war in its full naked glory. On the surface, everyone agreed that paying multi-million…