Dean Baker

We should perhaps not blame politicians who advocate a GND without telling us how they plan to pay for it. After all, Republican politicians have been getting elected for 40 years by promising big tax cuts without saying how they would pay for them. Still, MMT is not the solution.

We have seen a massive upward redistribution over the last four decades yet there is a large market for pieces saying the big conflict in the US is generational rather than class

With an environmental crisis bearing down on us, and having suffered through a nearly decade-long economic expansion that has done so little to improve the lot of most workers, this is no time for half measures

For a Medicare for All system to meaningfully lower prescription drug prices, it must give the government the power to put the patent at risk, not the patient

Rather than pointing out that the advocates of austerity have been shown wrong, most reporting continues to treat their policies as being credible

The two senators, both likely 2020 presidential candidates, are leading the charge to reduce drug prices in the United States

The real incredible aspect of Davos is that so many political leaders and news organizations would go to a meeting that is quite explicitly about rich people trying to set an agenda for the world

Former Wisconsin governor either does not understand how our income tax system works or is deliberately lying to advance his agenda

There is so much wealth and income parked among a few at the top that sums in the neighborhood of 100 billion a year can be raised quite easily