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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.
We all know that people have different ideologies about the proper role of government. Some people, who tend to be left of…
In the matter of a few short weeks in the summer of 1997 the thriving countries of East Asia saw their economies…
(February 24, 2009) — Thank you, Chairman Miller, for inviting me to share my views on the problems of the current system…
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Commodity trader Rick Santelli made himself into a national hero of sorts with his televised diatribe about being forced to pay the…
The Washington policy debates of the last week would almost make a casual observer believe that the nation’s political leadership is in…
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Peter Peterson is coming to get your Social Security and Medicare. Peterson was the commerce secretary in the Nixon administration. He then…
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s long-awaited plan for rescuing the banks left people even more confused about the Obama administration’s agenda than they…