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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.
Those following the meeting of President Obama’s economic advisory committee could not have been very reassured by the presence of Robert Rubin…
President Obama will have a historic opportunity to establish himself as a truly great president in his first days in office. He…
That’s right, the former Maestro told Congress last week when asked about the meltdown of the housing bubble and the resulting financial…
Economist Dean Baker discussed the current economic crisis and it’s causes. Note: Audio levels are a little low
Advocates of cutting social security and Medicare in the US are using the financial crisis as a pretext to further their agenda.…
To help sell his bailout package last month, President Bush raised the specter of the Great Depression. This was sleazy politics. While…
For the last month, most of the world has been watching the Wall Street gang drowning in their own greed as they…
The current economic crisis is the result of an extraordinary period of extreme economic mismanagement. The world’s central banks, most importantly the…
The Wall Street bailout doesn’t address the core problem facing the US economy: house prices that are continuing to fall… The U.S.…