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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...

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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.

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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...

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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 4

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 6

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...

13.05.2025 30

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

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

07.05.2025 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 7

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 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

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

Dean Baker

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

Dean Baker

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

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