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Days After Giving Big Tax Cuts to Billionaires, Trump to Hit Workers with $2 Trillion Tax Increase

Donald Trump seems to be doing everything possible to show his contempt for ordinary working people, many of whom voted for him last fall. Just after...

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CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Can We Stop Calling Them Populist Tax Cuts? – OpEd

It is infuriating to see the media and politicians, including Democratic ones, refer to some of Trump’s campaign promises as

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Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Days After Giving Big Tax Cuts to Billionaires, Trump to Hit Workers With $2 Trillion Tax Increase

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Common Dreams

Dean Baker

Can We Stop Calling Them Populist Tax Cuts?

It is infuriating to see the media and politicians, including Democratic ones, refer to some of Trump’s campaign promises as “populist” tax...

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CounterPunch

Dean Baker

The Bad News In The Republicans’ Huge Bill – OpEd

The Republicans’ big tax and spending bill has all sorts of gifts – almost all of them for the rich.

04.07.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

How Many People Have to Die to Keep a 79-Year-Old Man Suffering from Dementia Happy?

That’s the question Republicans in Congress will be debating as they struggle to put Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill (BBB)” in final form...

03.07.2025 40

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

May Consumption Data Looks Pretty Bad

Sorry, I’ve been on the road, so not much time for writing. I did want to quickly mention a couple of points about the data on consumption for May...

02.07.2025 20

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Continuing US Unemployment Claims Rise Again – OpEd

The number of new unemployment insurance claims edged down last week to 236,000. This brought the four-week average to 245,000,

01.07.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Continuing Unemployment Claims Rise Again

The number of new unemployment insurance claims edged down last week to 236,000. This brought the four-week average to 245,000, just over 4.0 percent...

29.06.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

When Will Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Show Up In The Data? – OpEd

Many of us have been following the inflation data closely for evidence of Trump’s tariffs. Along with most other economists

27.06.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

When Will Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Show Up in the Data?

Just as we are waiting for more evidence on where the tariffs are hitting, we are also waiting for clearer evidence of the impact of Trump’s mass...

26.06.2025 7

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

ThePatriotOasis, Elon Musk, and Defamation in a Reformed Section 230 World

Many people might have seen the tweet from the person who posts under the name “ThePatriotOasis,” which claimed that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...

25.06.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Don’t Buy the Scare About Social Security

The release of the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report led to lots of hyperventilating in the media as well as dire warnings about the program facing...

24.06.2025 20

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

The New York Times Lies Bigly About Iran

The New York Times gave us an analysis piece on Iran by Roger Cohen, a longtime reporter who covered Iran for the paper more than a decade ago. The...

23.06.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump’s Big Tax Hike – OpEd

While everyone is talking about the Republicans’ big tax cuts for Elon Musk and other billionaires, he also is hitting

21.06.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trumpcession Watch: Unemployment Claims Move Higher – OpEd

Continuing claims have been on a modest upward path since last summer, but we just saw a big jump in

19.06.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trumpcession Watch: Unemployment Claims Move Higher

Continuing claims have been on a modest upward path since last summer, but we just saw a big jump in last week’s data. The levels are still not...

18.06.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Inside the MAGA Mind: Musk Could Apologize to Trump, But Not to the American People

Elon Musk put his tail between his legs and apologized to Donald Trump. In a tweet on X, Musk said, “I regret some of my posts about President...

17.06.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

China Now Projected To Grow Three Times As Fast As The United States – OpEd

The World Bank came out with its updated projections for economic growth for 2025. They showed slower growth for pretty much the

14.06.2025 20

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Will Deficits Created By Trump’s Tax Cuts Leave US Unprepared To Deal With Recession? – OpEd

The May jobs report indicated that the labor market is still solid, even if there are some concerning signs like

12.06.2025 7

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Will the Deficits Created by Trump’s Tax Cuts Leave the US Unprepared to Deal With a Recession?

The May jobs report indicated that the labor market is still solid, even if there are some concerning signs like the rise in unemployment among Black...

11.06.2025 7

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

The Bad News About The May US Jobs Report – OpEd

Most coverage of the May jobs data said the picture was pretty good, an assessment with which I largely concurred. The

11.06.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

The Bad News About the May Jobs Report

Most coverage of the May jobs data said the picture was pretty good, an assessment with which I largely concurred. The economy added 139,000 jobs and...

10.06.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

The Amazing Story About AIDS in Africa that Elon Musk’s Chainsaw Killed

In the 22 years of the program’s existence it has saved tens of millions of lives. It also has also allowed for these countries to have some chance...

05.06.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump’s Tax-Free Overtime Proposal Misses the Obvious: Employers Should Pay More

If bosses want to force workers to put in extra hours, then they should be the ones who pick up the tab, not taxpayers.

04.06.2025 2

Truthout

Dean Baker

My Abundance Agenda

Since “abundance” is apparently the in-thing, I thought I should get in on the act. At the onset, I will admit I don’t have much new to offer to...

03.06.2025 40

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Foreign Students Aren’t Just a Large Source of Export Revenue, They Were a Rapidly Growing One

Remember when Donald Trump was worried about our trade deficit? Yeah, that must have been days ago. But anyhow, as I and others have pointed out, the...

02.06.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump Wants To Make Mortgages More Expensive To Make His Friends Richer – OpEd

Donald Trump makes little effort to hide his plans to give ever more money to rich friends. He has made

31.05.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Why Are The Abundance Boys Scared To Talk About Patent Monopolies? – OpEd

The Abundance Boys are the latest intellectual fad in elite policy circles. The basic idea pushed by Yoni Appelbaum, Ezra

30.05.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

What the FDA’s Decision on the New COVID Boosters Tells Us

There is no “the” vaccine. There are at least two mRNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) and a number of different non-mRNA vaccines. In the United...

29.05.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Mad Money: Why The Markets Are Angry At Trump – OpEd

When he was elected last fall, Donald Trump was the darling of the business community. He promised to get rid

29.05.2025 9

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Mad Money: Why the Markets are Angry at Trump

When he was elected last fall, Donald Trump was the darling of the business community. He promised to get rid of pesky regulations that protect...

29.05.2025 20

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Can David Brooks Stop Lying?

I really did not want to waste my time writing about David Brooks just now. When Donald Trump is threatening democracy, the rule of law, and just...

27.05.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Trump’s War On Universities Increases The Trade Deficit – OpEd

Donald Trump seems to have even more trouble staying focused these days than usual. People may recall back to April

27.05.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trump’s War on Universities Increases the Trade Deficit

Donald Trump seems to have even more trouble staying focused these days than usual. People may recall back to April 2 — which Trump declared as...

26.05.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Where’s My $5K DOGE Check? – OpEd

Remember back to the early days of DOGE when Elon Musk was telling us he would eliminate $2 trillion in

24.05.2025 9

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

No Taxes For Guys Named Joe: Trump’s Overtime Tax Exemption – OpEd

No one ever accused Donald Trump of knowing much about the economy. That fact comes through loud and clear in

22.05.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

No Taxes for Guys Named Joe: Trump’s Overtime Tax Exemption

No one ever accused Donald Trump of knowing much about the economy. That fact comes through loud and clear in his tax cut proposals. In addition to...

21.05.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

The Path to Medicare for All

our government already pays enough for national health insurance. Federal, state, and local governments will pay more than $8,500 a person this year...

20.05.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

A Wall Of Receipts For The Trump Presidency – OpEd

For folks who have not followed the Elon Musk-DOGE clown show, their main exhibit is the so-called “Wall of Receipts”

20.05.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Trump Wants Cheap Drugs, So Should We All – OpEd

Trump decided that he wants the drug companies to charge people in the United States less for prescription drugs. His

16.05.2025 2

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Tariffs Are Taxes On Us, Not Them – OpEd

Some years back, when Obama was trying to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), I was giving a talk on

15.05.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Tariffs Are Taxes on Us, Not Them

Tariffs are a tax that a country imposes on itself. It imposes costs in the same way that a tax on gas or beef imposes costs. Tariffs can also harm...

14.05.2025 10

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Free Trade Dogma Runs Very Deep – OpEd

People in cults often find it nearly impossible to get outside the cult outlook on the world. This is very

13.05.2025 2

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Free Trade Dogma Runs Very Deep

People in cults often find it nearly impossible to get outside the cult outlook on the world. This is very much true of the leading intellectuals in...

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CounterPunch

Dean Baker

Q1: China Adds More Than $400 Billion To GDP, Trump Loses $25 Billion – OpEd

Donald Trump is not very good with arithmetic, but that is not a reason the rest of us should not

12.05.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Dean Baker

Q1: China Adds More than $400 Billion to GDP, Trump Loses $25 Billion

Donald Trump is not very good with arithmetic, but that is not a reason the rest of us should not use it. The US economy shrank at 0.3 percent annual...

12.05.2025 30

CounterPunch

Dean Baker

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

09.05.2025 8

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

08.05.2025 10

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...

07.05.2025 30

CounterPunch

Dean Baker