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Dean Baker

Health Care Cost Growth Slowed Sharply After Obamacare – OpEd

The Trump gang, who invented pet-eating immigrants to help win the election, are also inventing crazy stories about Obamacare wrecking

07.10.2025 2

Dean Baker

Health Care Cost Growth Slowed Sharply After Obamacare

The Trump gang, who invented pet-eating immigrants to help win the election, are also inventing crazy stories about Obamacare wrecking the health care...

06.10.2025 10

Dean Baker

Thoughts From The US Shutdown – OpEd

As we go through Trump Shutdown IV, I had a few thoughts to share. Montana Senator Steve Daines – Truth

04.10.2025 3

Dean Baker

The Fast Food Index Is Looking Bleak – OpEd

For the last several years I have relied on real (inflation-adjusted) spending at fast food restaurants as a useful gauge

03.10.2025 2

Dean Baker

The Fast Food Index is Looking Bleak

In 2021, 2022, and 2023, real fast-food spending was growing at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent, considerably faster than the 2.9 percent growth...

02.10.2025 10

Dean Baker

US Economy Grew At A 1.6 Percent Rate In The First Half – OpEd

Some folks have gotten a bit carried away with the revisions that put the second quarter growth rate at 3.8

02.10.2025 3

Dean Baker

The Economy Grew at a 1.6 Percent Rate in the First Half

Some folks have gotten a bit carried away with the revisions that put the second quarter growth rate at 3.8 percent. That does look impressive in...

01.10.2025 20

Dean Baker

The ‘Free Market’: The Fatal Error Of The Foundational Myth Of Center-Left Politics – OpEd

Noem Scheiber, the New York Times’ generally excellent labor reporter, had a lengthy background piece that really hit a nerve. The piece

01.10.2025 2

Dean Baker

The “Free Market”: The Fatal Error of the Foundational Myth of Center-Left Politics

Noem Scheiber, the New York Times’ generally excellent labor reporter, had a lengthy background piece that really hit a nerve. The piece sought to...

30.09.2025 20

Dean Baker

Slowing Global Warming Does Address Affordability

The media are often slow to catch up with reality. In decades past we could talk about addressing global warming as a trade-off where we would spend...

29.09.2025 10

Dean Baker

Shakedown Shack: The Trump White House – OpEd

Corruption is always a potential problem in government, although if we get beyond the idiocy about the “Biden crime family,”

27.09.2025 2

Dean Baker

Trump’s Attacks On Jobs Numbers Are Noise But Still Dangerous – OpEd

By now, the Trump White House has a simple strategy for dealing with what it considers bad news: Attack the

26.09.2025 3

Dean Baker

Trump’s Attacks on Jobs Numbers Are Noise But Still Dangerous

By now, the Trump White House has a simple strategy for dealing with what it considers bad news: Attack the messenger. They have pressured TV networks...

25.09.2025 30

Dean Baker

The European Union Is Working Less But Doing Fine – OpEd

There is a popular story circulating in the media that the European countries are in some sort of downward spiral,

25.09.2025 4

Dean Baker

The European Union is Working Less But Doing Fine

There is a popular story circulating in the media that the European countries are in some sort of downward spiral, hopelessly behind the United...

24.09.2025 20

Dean Baker

Learning To Love Tariffs – OpEd

I know many people have been saying in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing that we have to reach out

24.09.2025 2

Dean Baker

Why the Bursting of the AI Bubble Would Be Good for the Economy

It has become common in recent months for people in the business press to note both that AI stocks seem to be in a bubble and that this bubble is...

23.09.2025 50

Dean Baker

Lessons from Jimmy Kimmel: The Media Don’t Have to Be Controlled by the Rich

Like every other sane person, I was outraged at seeing Jimmy Kimmel getting fired because he was making fun of Donald Trump. (Spare me the crap about...

22.09.2025 40

Dean Baker

Why The Bursting Of The AI Bubble Would Be Good For The Economy – OpEd

It has become common in recent months for people in the business press to note both that AI stocks seem

22.09.2025 4

Dean Baker

Cheap Advice for the Fed

The question for the Fed is whether it has to worry more about inflation or a weak labor market. Last week’s data indicate both are real concerns,...

17.09.2025 10

Dean Baker

Trump, Pulte, and Lisa Cook: Rich People Lie, Consequences are for Others

A few weeks back, Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency Director (FHFA) and the billionaire heir to a housing construction firm, claimed to...

16.09.2025 10

Dean Baker

Japan and Korea Should Hand Money to their Exporters Rather than Donald Trump

Donald Trump has been boasting about his trade deals with Japan and Korea, where in exchange for buying down the taxes on their imports from 25...

15.09.2025 10

Dean Baker

Japan And Korea Should Hand Money To Their Exporters Rather Than Donald Trump – OpEd

Donald Trump has been boasting about his trade deals with Japan and Korea, where in exchange for buying down the

13.09.2025 5

Dean Baker

Trump Goes Full MAGA On Jobs For Black Workers – OpEd

Donald Trump has made no secret of his longing for a time when discrimination against Black people was not just

12.09.2025 5

Dean Baker

Trump Goes Full MAGA on Jobs for Black Workers

Donald Trump has made no secret of his longing for a time when discrimination against Black people was not just common, but totally legal. His...

11.09.2025 50

Dean Baker

Trump Goes Full MAGA on Jobs for Black Workers

Donald Trump has made no secret of his longing for a time when discrimination against Black people was not just common, but totally legal. His...

10.09.2025 20

Dean Baker

Fewer Immigrants Means Fewer Workers, Less Growth – OpEd

One of the releases from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that gets relatively little attention is its annual projections

06.09.2025 5

Dean Baker

The Real Scandal Here Is Bill Pulte, Not Lisa Cook

05.09.2025 2

Dean Baker

Fewer Immigrants Means Fewer Workers, Less Growth

One of the releases from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that gets relatively little attention is its annual projections for growth in employment...

05.09.2025 10

Dean Baker

The Rich Wrote The Laws So That They Get All The Money, While The Left Was Sleeping – OpEd

I endlessly hear people complaining that we should tax billionaires, which we should. But the more fundamental question that is

05.09.2025 4

Dean Baker

The Rich Wrote the Laws So that They Get all the Money, While the Left Was Sleeping

I endlessly hear people complaining that we should tax billionaires, which we should. But the more fundamental question that is rarely asked is, why...

04.09.2025 60

Dean Baker

What the Fast Food Spending Index Says About Consumer Sentiment in the US

I have been obsessing on fast food since the days when the pundits told us to ignore the data showing rising real wages, people can’t make ends...

02.09.2025 30

Dean Baker

Being a Reserve Currency is Not a Zero-One Proposition

There is a huge amount of silliness around the dollar’s status as the world’s leading reserve currency. “Leading” is the key word in that...

01.09.2025 10

Dean Baker

MAGA 2.0: Making China Great Again

In Donald Trump’s make-believe world prices are falling, the economy is booming, he is bringing peace all around the world, and gas costs less than...

27.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

Putting Universal Medicare Front and Center

At a time when we don’t know if we will have real elections in 2026 and 2028, it may seem a bit absurd to be plotting an agenda for Democrats, but...

26.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

Trump Corruption and the Governor Lisa Cook Mortgage Case

Trump has rapidly turned the US government into an authoritarian cesspool. His latest plunge into the muck is the effort to force Federal Reserve...

25.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

If the Dems Want to Beat Trump, They Should Embrace Medicare for All

24.08.2025 4

Dean Baker

Quick Thoughts on the Economy: Slowing Growth Until the Stock Market Crash

GDP grew at a 1.2 percent annual rate in the first half of the year — that is down sharply from its 2.5 percent rate in 2024. It is not hard to...

21.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest: Native Born Employment is Not Surging

I can’t believe we have to debate some things, but with Trump you never know how ridiculous the discussion can get. The Washington Post tells us...

20.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

The Unemployment Rate for Black Workers Rises Sharply

One of the little noted accomplishments of the Biden years was bringing down the unemployment rate for Black workers to 4.8 percent in April of 2023....

18.08.2025 20

Dean Baker

Trump Wants to Make It More Expensive to Buy a Home: Privatizing Fannie and Freddie

In Washington no bad idea stays dead long. Therefore it should not be surprising that Donald Trump is planning to move forward with plans to privatize...

14.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

Privatizing Freddie and Fannie Is Another Trump Scheme to Make the Rich Richer

13.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

Trump’s Craziness on BLS

Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer because he said she rigged the numbers to make him look bad. There is an...

13.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

The Impact of Trump Tariffs on the Trade Deficit

It is always dangerous to try to get into Donald Trump’s head, and there probably is not much point to the exercise, but Trump says the purpose of...

12.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

In Trump’s Competition with China, China is Winning

Donald Trump doesn’t have much interest in numbers and the real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking in...

11.08.2025 20

Dean Baker

Trump’s Team of Cowards

Donald Trump’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), brought his administration to a new...

07.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

Remember When the Democrats Lost the Elections Because of Fears About Inflation? The NYT Doesn’t

As usual, the New York Times gets things exactly wrong in a piece headlined “Trump’s Tariffs are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.”...

06.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

The Proud Republican History of Paranoia and Anti-Semitism About Government Statistics

Donald Trump’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), brings back memories of Richard...

05.08.2025 10

Dean Baker

The Jobs Report: Why July Was Bad News

I always caution not to make too much of a single report or single month’s data, but I think we can look at the July report and say it was...

04.08.2025 10

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Right-Wing Moguls Dominate Social Media. One Legal Fix Can Help Stem the Tide.

Dean Baker

Health Care Cost Growth Slowed Sharply After Obamacare – OpEd

Dean Baker

Health Care Cost Growth Slowed Sharply After Obamacare

Dean Baker

Thoughts From The US Shutdown – OpEd

Dean Baker

The Fast Food Index Is Looking Bleak – OpEd

Dean Baker

The Fast Food Index is Looking Bleak

Dean Baker

US Economy Grew At A 1.6 Percent Rate In The First Half – OpEd

Dean Baker

The Economy Grew at a 1.6 Percent Rate in the First Half

Dean Baker

The ‘Free Market’: The Fatal Error Of The Foundational Myth Of Center-Left Politics – OpEd

Dean Baker

The “Free Market”: The Fatal Error of the Foundational Myth of Center-Left Politics

Dean Baker

Slowing Global Warming Does Address Affordability

Dean Baker

Shakedown Shack: The Trump White House – OpEd

Dean Baker

Trump’s Attacks On Jobs Numbers Are Noise But Still Dangerous – OpEd

Dean Baker

Trump’s Attacks on Jobs Numbers Are Noise But Still Dangerous

Dean Baker

The European Union Is Working Less But Doing Fine – OpEd

Dean Baker

The European Union is Working Less But Doing Fine

Dean Baker

Learning To Love Tariffs – OpEd

Dean Baker

Why the Bursting of the AI Bubble Would Be Good for the Economy

Dean Baker

Lessons from Jimmy Kimmel: The Media Don’t Have to Be Controlled by the Rich

Dean Baker

Why The Bursting Of The AI Bubble Would Be Good For The Economy – OpEd

Dean Baker

Cheap Advice for the Fed

Dean Baker

Trump, Pulte, and Lisa Cook: Rich People Lie, Consequences are for Others

Dean Baker

Japan and Korea Should Hand Money to their Exporters Rather than Donald Trump

Dean Baker

Japan And Korea Should Hand Money To Their Exporters Rather Than Donald Trump – OpEd

Dean Baker

Trump Goes Full MAGA On Jobs For Black Workers – OpEd

Dean Baker

Trump Goes Full MAGA on Jobs for Black Workers

Dean Baker

Trump Goes Full MAGA on Jobs for Black Workers

Dean Baker

Fewer Immigrants Means Fewer Workers, Less Growth – OpEd

Dean Baker

The Real Scandal Here Is Bill Pulte, Not Lisa Cook

Dean Baker

Fewer Immigrants Means Fewer Workers, Less Growth

Dean Baker

The Rich Wrote The Laws So That They Get All The Money, While The Left Was Sleeping – OpEd

Dean Baker

The Rich Wrote the Laws So that They Get all the Money, While the Left Was Sleeping

Dean Baker

What the Fast Food Spending Index Says About Consumer Sentiment in the US

Dean Baker

Being a Reserve Currency is Not a Zero-One Proposition

Dean Baker

MAGA 2.0: Making China Great Again

Dean Baker

Putting Universal Medicare Front and Center

Dean Baker

Trump Corruption and the Governor Lisa Cook Mortgage Case

Dean Baker

If the Dems Want to Beat Trump, They Should Embrace Medicare for All

Dean Baker

Quick Thoughts on the Economy: Slowing Growth Until the Stock Market Crash