Dean Baker

Dean Baker is the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. 

Where’s My $5K DOGE Check?

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

The Path to Medicare for All

A Wall of Receipts for the Trump Presidency

Trump Wants Cheap Drugs, So Should We All

Tariffs Are Taxes on Us, Not Them

Free Trade Dogma Runs Very Deep

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

Trump Wants Your Kids to Work for $21 an Hour

Donald Trump Versus Cheating Penguins

Wage Growth Slowed in April

Silliness on the First Quarter GDP

Trump’s Attack on NIH Will Mean Fewer Drugs and Likely More Expensive Ones

The Deportation Drive: Trump Promised Millions of Dangerous Criminals

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

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

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

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

Section 230: We Really Should Talk About It

Trump’s Tariff Policy is Costing the US Bigly

Unchecked Power to Total Jerks

Limiting the President’s Authority is a Good Idea

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

Our Huge Trade Deficit with China Does NOT Give Us the Upper Hand in Tax (Tariff) War

Trump’s Big Wealth Tax

Trump’s Tariffs Open the Door for Medicare for All

Dr. Trump’s Crazy Tariff Formula

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

Five Alarm Fire on SignalGate

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

Social Security is a Joke to Trump and His Team

Patent Monopolies: the Biggest Tax No One’s Heard Of

The Masses Were Saying Things Were Good, Not the Democrats

Can We Have Media That Inform the Public?

Government Efficiency and DOGE Government Efficiency

Trump Tariffs and the Dollar as the World Reserve Currency

The Trump-Musk Recession: Because They Can

The Democrats’ Necessary Apology

Crypto and Donald Trump’s Strategic Baseball Card Reserve

Trump’s Dead People on Social Security Lie

Donald the Taxman Strikes at Midnight

Trump’s Record Large Tax Increase

The Elites Big Lie on Equality

Elon Musk and the DOGE Boy Clown Show

Social Security Zombies: Another Big Lie for the MAGA Collection

Musk’s Buddy Javier Milei Tangos With Crypto Scam

Eight Ways Trump Can Tank the Economy

Real Corruption that Could Meet Republican Cost-Saving Targets

Failed Elites, Elon Musk, and Lies the Media Tell You

Egg Prices and the Cause of Harris’ Defeat