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Trump Wants Your Kids To Work For $21 An Hour – OpEd

The Washington Past had an interesting piece  about the rare manufacturing company that is largely unharmed by Donald Trump’s tariffs. The

yesterday 1

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Donald Trump Versus Cheating Penguins – OpEd

Way back on his April 2 “Liberation Day,” (it feels like a long time ago), Donald Trump released a set

previous day 6

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Donald Trump Versus Cheating Penguins

Way back on his April 2 “Liberation Day,” (it feels like a long time ago), Donald Trump released a set of “reciprocal” tariffs. These tariffs...

wednesday 30

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

US Wage Growth Slowed In April – OpEd

One underappreciated item in the April jobs report was the sharp slowing of wage growth in recent months. This is

wednesday 5

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Wage Growth Slowed in April

One underappreciated item in the April jobs report was the sharp slowing of wage growth in recent months. This is bad news both for what it tells us...

06.05.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Silliness On The First Quarter GDP – OpEd

As we all know, GDP shrank at a 0.3 percent annual rate in the first quarter, the first decline in

06.05.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Silliness on the First Quarter GDP

As we all know, GDP shrank at a 0.3 percent annual rate in the first quarter, the first decline in GDP in three years. The main factor from an...

05.05.2025 7

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump’s Attack On NIH Will Mean Fewer Drugs And Likely More Expensive Ones – OpEd

One of the many areas that Elon Musk has taken his chainsaw to is the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

02.05.2025 8

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

The Deportation Drive: Trump Promised Millions Of Dangerous Criminals – OpEd

The Deportation Drive: Trump Promised Millions Of Dangerous Criminals – OpEd

The Trump administration’s deportation of people without anything resembling due process has disgusted much of the population. The...

02.05.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

The Deportation Drive: Trump Promised Millions of Dangerous Criminals

The Trump administration’s deportation of people without anything resembling due process has disgusted much of the population. The latest target was...

01.05.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

How Much Have Elon Musk and the DOGE Boys Cost Us?

Back when Elon Musk was just getting his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) off the ground, he was boasting that he would eliminate $2...

30.04.2025 3

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Net Zero Chance Of Eliminating Emissions – OpEd

Net Zero Chance Of Eliminating Emissions – OpEd

By James Price In his 2017 book The Strange Death of Europe, Douglas Murray accused Western European nations of Geschichtsmüde, being weary

29.04.2025 30

Eurasia Review

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Trump’s Now You See Them, Now You Don’t Tariffs – OpEd

Trump’s Now You See Them, Now You Don’t Tariffs – OpEd

The Trump tariff story keeps getting crazier. It may seem like ancient history now, but it was just over three

29.04.2025 10

Eurasia Review

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China’s Growth Leaves Trump’s MAGA USA In The Dust – OpEd

China’s Growth Leaves Trump’s MAGA USA In The Dust – OpEd

The International Monetary Fund just released its growth projections for 2025, as well as the next five years. It’s not

25.04.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

China’s Growth Leaves Trump’s MAGA USA in the Dust

The International Monetary Fund just released its growth projections for 2025, as well as the next five years. It’s not a very good picture for...

24.04.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Iron Dome Technology: Elon Musk’s License to Steal Taxpayers’ Dollars – OpEd

Iron Dome Technology: Elon Musk’s License to Steal Taxpayers’ Dollars – OpEd

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making corruption and graft the main business of the US government. They have fired

24.04.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Iron Dome Technology: Elon Musk’s License to Steal Taxpayers’ Dollars

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making corruption and graft the main business of the US government. They have fired all the cops who might try to rein...

23.04.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Section 230: We Really Should Talk About It – OpEd

Virtually every progressive — and many people who are not at all progressive — are bothered by the ability of

23.04.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Section 230: We Really Should Talk About It

Virtually every progressive — and many people who are not at all progressive — are bothered by the ability of the rich to buy elections with their...

22.04.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Let the Data Show: Trump Killed Biden's Manufacturing Boom on Day One

19.04.2025 20

Common Dreams

Dean Baker

Trump’s Tariff Policy Is Costing The US Bigly – OpEd

Donald Trump lives in a world of make believe. In Donald Trump land global warming isn’t happening, tens of millions

19.04.2025 8

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Unchecked Power to Total Jerks

The Trump administration is claiming powers in both domestic and foreign affairs that vastly exceed those of prior presidents. He bases his claim on...

17.04.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Limiting The President’s Authority Is A Good Idea – OpEd

Seven Republican Senators have joined together in a proposal that would limit the president’s authority to impose tariffs. If the...

17.04.2025 8

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Five Facts About Trade You Don’t Read In The Newspaper – OpEd

Okay, maybe you do read these in the newspaper, but not as much as you should. 1) The dollar’s status

15.04.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Five Facts About Trade You Don’t Read in the Newspaper

Okay, maybe you do read these in the newspaper, but not as much as you should. 1) The dollar’s status as the leading reserve currency does not mean...

14.04.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Our Huge Trade Deficit With China Does Not Give Us The Upper Hand In Tax (Tariff) War – OpEd

Many reporters and commentators have claimed the United States has the upper hand in a trade war with China because

12.04.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trump’s Big Wealth Tax – OpEd

Many progressives have long pushed for a wealth tax to lessen some of the huge fortunes that have been built

11.04.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trump Offers Medicare for All Supporters a Very Valuable Lesson

10.04.2025 10

Common Dreams

Dean Baker

Trump’s Big Wealth Tax

Many progressives have long pushed for a wealth tax to lessen some of the huge fortunes that have been built as a result of the rise in inequality...

10.04.2025 7

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump’s Tariffs Open The Door For Medicare For All – OpEd

Although it surely was not intended, Trump’s tariff plan may have opened the door for the Democrats to push for

10.04.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Dr. Trump’s Crazy Tariff Formula – OpEd

Suppose your doctor suddenly insisted that you needed to follow a strict diet and exercise regimen. He said he realized you had a serious problem when...

08.04.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trump’s Trade Wars Hark Back to an Economy That No Longer Exists

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The Nation

Dean Baker

Dr. Trump’s Crazy Tariff Formula

Suppose your doctor suddenly insisted that you needed to follow a strict diet and exercise regimen. He said he realized you had a serious problem when...

07.04.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

The Batshit Tariff Madness of King Trump

03.04.2025 5

Common Dreams

Dean Baker

The Fruits of Trump Tariffs: Closer Ties Between Canada and China

With Donald Trump seemingly determined to push the US economy on a path towards autarky, our major trading partners will need to make alternative...

02.04.2025 9

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Five Alarm Fire on SignalGate

Sorry to step away from my usual economics beat, but this is important. And to be clear, I am not at all a fan of the war on the Houthis, but that is...

01.04.2025 8

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Five Things Elon Musk Doesn’t Want You to Know About Social Security

Elon Musk’s DOGE has taken a particularly keen interest in Social Security – and not in a good way. Musk called the program  a Ponzi Scheme and...

31.03.2025 30

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Social Security Is A Joke To Trump And His Team – OpEd

The vast majority of retirees are heavily dependent on their Social Security checks. In many cases Social Security is the

28.03.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Social Security is a Joke to Trump and His Team

The vast majority of retirees are heavily dependent on their Social Security checks. In many cases Social Security is the bulk of their retirement...

27.03.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Patent Monopolies: The Biggest Tax No One’s Heard Of – OpEd

Suppose someone proposed to tax the country $500 billion a year — which comes to $4,000 per household annually, and

26.03.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Government Efficiency And DOGE Government Efficiency – OpEd

The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that it was reversing plans to eliminate the option of providing service over the phone. This

18.03.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Government Efficiency and DOGE Government Efficiency

Yesterday the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that it was reversing plans to eliminate the option of providing service over the phone....

17.03.2025 7

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump Tariffs And The Dollar As The World Reserve Currency – OpEd

With Trump threatening to impose big taxes (tariffs) on imports from all our major trading partners, many people are desperate

15.03.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

The Trump-Musk Recession: Because They Can – OpEd

Past recessions have been the result of policy errors or disasters. The most typical policy error is when the Federal

14.03.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Criticism Of Israel Is Misrepresented As Anti-Semitism – OpEd

By Jonathan Power In the New York Times, columnist Roger Cohen argued that anyone who queries the Jewish right to Israel

12.03.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

The Democrats’ Necessary Apology – OpEd

An old friend asked me to write a short piece on what I think we (progressives) should do now. I

12.03.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

The Democrats’ Necessary Apology

An old friend asked me to write a short piece on what I think we (progressives) should do now. I mentioned some immediate ways to stem the Trump...

11.03.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Crypto And Donald Trump’s Strategic Baseball Card Reserve – OpEd

The Republicans and Donald Trump seem set on establishing a strategic crypto reserve. They are claiming this will somehow be

11.03.2025 2

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Crypto and Donald Trump’s Strategic Baseball Card Reserve

The Republicans and Donald Trump seem set on establishing a strategic crypto reserve. They are claiming this will somehow be an important source of...

10.03.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump’s Dead People On Social Security Lie – OpEd

Donald Trump told many lies in his address to Congress the other night, but the one I found especially galling

08.03.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker