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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

yesterday 4

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

previous day 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trump Offers Medicare for All Supporters a Very Valuable Lesson

Trump Offers Medicare for All Supporters a Very Valuable Lesson
thursday 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...

thursday 7

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

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

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

thursday 10

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Dr. Trump’s Crazy Tariff Formula – OpEd

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

07.04.2025 100

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

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

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

Donald the Taxman Strikes at Midnight

The waiting is over, Donald Trump has hit America’s workers with the largest tax increase they have ever seen. Trump’s taxes on imports (tariffs)...

06.03.2025 8

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump’s Record Large Tax Increase

The taxes on imports (tariffs) that Donald Trump is putting in place next week, coupled with his earlier taxes, will rank among the largest tax...

05.03.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

The Elites Big Lie On Equality – OpEd

(I saw that Jeff Bezos wants the Washington Post’s editorial page to run pieces touting the merits of free markets.

05.03.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China Will Cost the US $3,000 a Household

Trump is hiking taxes on the working class, and he is doing it in a way that doesn’t require congressional approval.

05.03.2025 40

Truthout

Dean Baker

Trump Set to Whack US Working Class With Historic $3,000 Tax Hike

04.03.2025 40

Common Dreams

Dean Baker

The Elites Big Lie on Equality

(I saw that Jeff Bezos wants the Washington Post’s editorial page to run pieces touting the merits of free markets. Here’s my submission.) There...

04.03.2025 30

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Social Security Zombies: Another Big Lie for the MAGA Collection

Loyal followers of Donald Trump have to believe an increasingly large collection of ridiculous lies. First and foremost, they have to believe that the...

27.02.2025 30

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Real Horror Could Lurk Beneath Trump’s Social Security Zombies Lie

22.02.2025 9

Common Dreams

Dean Baker

Musk’s Buddy Javier Milei Tangos With Crypto Scam – OpEd

Argentina’s President Javier Milei, who has won high praise from Elon Musk, was caught in the middle of crypto scam in the

22.02.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Eight Ways Trump Can Tank The Economy – OpEd

President Biden handed off the best economy to an incoming president since at least the 2001 handoff from Clinton to

21.02.2025 2

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Eight Ways Trump Can Tank the Economy

President Biden handed off the best economy to an incoming president since at least the 2001 handoff from Clinton to Bush II. In his last quarter in...

20.02.2025 20

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Real Corruption That Could Meet Republican Cost-Saving Targets – OpEd

The news has been filled with stories in recent days about Republicans desperately hunting for $2.0-$2.5 trillion (2-3 percent of

19.02.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Real Corruption that Could Meet Republican Cost-Saving Targets

The news has been filled with stories in recent days about Republicans desperately hunting for $2.0-$2.5 trillion (2-3 percent of the budget) in...

18.02.2025 9

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Egg Prices And The Cause Of Harris’ Defeat – OpEd

Since everyone else has given their two cents on the cause of Harris’ defeat, I guess I will weigh in

14.02.2025 8

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Musk Is Helping His Friends In The Financial Industry – OpEd

We know that many rich people are not too sharp, which is why they rely on help from the government

08.02.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

China And The Story Of Supply And Demand – OpEd

Sometimes things are in fact more complicated than they seem, but sometimes they actually are much simpler. The story of

07.02.2025 2

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

China and the Story of Supply and Demand

Sometimes things are in fact more complicated than they seem, but sometimes they actually are much simpler. The story of China’s weak economy falls...

06.02.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Canada And Mexico Under Attack: The China Solution – OpEd

For reasons that obviously have nothing to do with reality, Donald Trump has decided to renege on the trade deal

06.02.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Canada and Mexico Under Attack: The China Solution

For reasons that obviously have nothing to do with reality, Donald Trump has decided to renege on the trade deal he negotiated five years ago and...

05.02.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

The Confusions Of Donald Trump: The Case Of Supply And Demand – OpEd

Donald Trump is the world’s leading expert in getting things wrong and one thing he gets wrong bigly is the

04.02.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

The Confusions of Donald Trump: the Case of Supply and Demand

Donald Trump is the world’s leading expert in getting things wrong and one thing he gets wrong bigly is the value of the U.S. domestic market. Trump...

03.02.2025 20

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Ownership Of Twitter And Facebook Is A Big Deal, Who Would Have Known? – OpEd

I’m always happy when something I and others have been talking about for years makes it to the New York

31.01.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Ownership of Twitter and Facebook is a Big Deal, Who Would Have Known?

I’m always happy when something I and others have been talking about for years makes it to the New York Times. For that reason, I was happy that New...

30.01.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump’s Taxes (Tariffs) On Imports And Sales Taxes On Stocks (FTT) – OpEd

I have been pushing for financial transactions taxes (FTT) for more than three decades. The logic is straightforward. We have

30.01.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trump’s Taxes (Tariffs) on Imports and Sales Taxes on Stocks (FTT)

I have been pushing for financial transactions taxes (FTT) for more than three decades. The logic is straightforward. We have an enormous volume of...

29.01.2025 20

CounterPunch

Dean Baker