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Dean Baker

Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of several books, including Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better bargain for Working People, The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive, The United States Since 1980, Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot), and The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. He also has a blog, "Beat the Press," where he discusses the media's coverage of economic issues.

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	Views Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Can't the NYT Print a Budget Article Without Editorializing About Cutting Social Security and Medicare? The answer seems to be no. Read more
	Views Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Let's Get This Straight: AIG Execs Got Bailout Bonuses, but Pensioners Get Cuts As we passed the fifth anniversary of the peak of the financial crisis this fall, the giant insurance company AIG was prominently featured in the retrospectives. AIG had issued hundreds of billions of dollars of credit default swaps (CDS) on subprime mortgage backed securities. When these mortgage-backed securities failed en masse, AIG didn't have the money to back them up. Read more
	Views Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Technology Didn't Kill Middle Class Jobs, Public Policy Did Read more
	Views Sunday, November 03, 2013 Plutocrats vs. Populists: Good Piece Until the End -- Answers are Easy Chrystia Freeland has a good piece in the NYT on the rise of plutocratic politics in the United States and elsewhere and the populist opposition it has provoked. Read more
	Views Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Republicans Are Delusional About US Spending and Deficits It is understandable that the public is disgusted with Washington; they have every right to be. At a time when the country continues to suffer from the worst patch of unemployment since the Great Depression, the government is shut down over concerns about the budget deficit. Read more
	Views Friday, October 11, 2013 The Ravings of Niall Ferguson, the Real World, and the Needless Suffering of Tens of Millions For reasons I cannot imagine, Niall Ferguson has achieved some standing as an intellectual with interesting things to say about the economy. Whenever I have read one of his pieces I almost always find it so confused that it would take a blogpost at least as long as the original to set it straight. This is why I generally ignore Ferguson, except when prodded by friends and readers. Read more
	Views Friday, October 04, 2013 Shutting Down the Government Over Health Care Read more
	Views Monday, September 30, 2013 Thank the GOP for the Shutdown and Holding the Economy Hostage Here we go again: the GOP is ready to stall the US economy and shut down the government in a crusade to cut government spending. Proponents of austerity both in the United States and Europe are eager to claim success for their policies. Read more
	Views Monday, September 23, 2013 The Media's Complicity in Cutting Social Security and Medicare Read more
	Views Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Anniversary Present for Wall Street Banks: A Financial Speculation Tax As we mark the fifth anniversary of the Wall Street bailouts, it is clear that little has changed in the way they do business. Read more

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