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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 Tuesday, March 18, 2014 Paul Ryan Isn't the Wonk of Washington – It's Time to Listen to More Good Ideas The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) released its budget last week . As usual, it was almost completely ignored by the major media outlets. Read more
	Views Monday, March 10, 2014 Would You Delay Buying a $30 Shirt for Months to Save 8 Cents? Me Neither The collapse of the housing bubble and the subsequent devastation to the economy caught almost the entire economics profession by surprise. Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan, along with other people in top policy positions, were left dumbfounded. They didn’t think a prolonged downturn was possible. They were wrong in a really big way. Read more
	Views Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Washington Post Complains That Bill Gates' Riches Come at the Expense of Everyone Else The Washington Post complained that the people of San Jose California are suffering because the city has to pay higher prices for computers and software because of the patent and copyright monopolies the government has given to Microsoft and other tech companies. Read more
	Views Saturday, February 22, 2014 Release of Fed Transcripts Show Fed Scary Ignorant in 2008, WaPo Scary Ignorant in 2014 It's great to be an economist in a top policymaking position in the United States. Unlike dishwashers, cab drivers, and most other workers, you are not held accountable for the quality of your work. We already knew that, since almost none of the people responsible for allowing the housing bubble to grow large enough to collapse the economy have paid any career price. (Ben Bernanke is praised for avoiding a second Great Depression. Talk about setting the bar low.) Read more
	Views Wednesday, February 19, 2014 True Free Market Proponents Should Support Private-Public Competition One of the initiatives President Obama announced in his State of the Union Address was the "MyRA," an IRA that workers could sign up for at their workplace. Read more
	Views Wednesday, February 05, 2014 CBO Findings on Obamacare (Minus the GOP Talking Points) Apparently a lot of media folks have made such a habit of repeating Republican talking points that they can't see what is right in front of their eyes. The Republicans are touting the fact that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to reduce the number of people working. Read more
	Views Monday, February 03, 2014 Silicon Valley Billionaires Believe in the Free Market, As Long as They Benefit Read more
	Views Sunday, January 19, 2014 'Freedom' Industries? Property Rights, Regulation, and Brain Dead Environmentalists Read more
	Views Tuesday, January 14, 2014 When Is the NYT Going to Start Putting Budget Numbers in Context? David Leonhardt, the NYT's Washington editor, committed the paper several months ago to putting large numbers in context in response to a complaint raised by Public Editor Margaret Sullivan.There is still no evidence of this effort in the paper's budget reporting. Read more
	Views Monday, January 06, 2014 All Eyes on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, America's Leading Progressive Read more

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