Dean Baker
Contrary to What the Washington Post Says, China is Doing a Huge Amount to Fight Global Warming
December 3, 2024RFK Jr., Physicians’ Pay Schedules, and the Elites’ Big Lie
November 27, 2024The Mainstream Media’s Big Lie
November 26, 2024RFK Jr is a Whacked-Out Crank, But He’s Right About Big Pharma
November 19, 2024The NYT Version of the Big Lie: Technology Created Inequality
November 12, 2024Four More Items in the Wages Outpacing Prices Debate
October 31, 2024Patent Monopolies and PBMs: Protectionism Leads to Corruption
October 25, 2024CNBC Hides the Extent to Which Trump Tax Proposal Would Hurt Moderate and Middle-Income Families
October 24, 2024The Biden-Harris Job Boom
October 23, 2024CNN Tells Harris Not to Talk About the Economy
October 16, 2024Should Harris be Celebrating the Labor Market?
October 11, 2024Tariffs and Government-Granted Patent Monopolies: Bad and “Good” Forms of Protectionism
October 9, 2024Automation is Called “Productivity Growth”
October 8, 2024Unemployment Edges Lower, Economy Adds 254,000 Jobs
October 7, 2024The Economy After GDP Revisions
October 1, 2024My Six Favorite Untruths About the Biden-Harris Economy
September 26, 2024Now That We All Agree that 10 Percent Tariffs on Imports are Bad, How About 1000 Percent Tariffs on Prescription Drugs?
September 18, 2024Trump Gets California Badly Wrong
September 16, 2024Under Trump, China’s Economic Growth Nearly Doubled the Growth of the US
September 11, 2024There Was a Housing Bubble in Atlanta Prior to the Crash
September 9, 2024Why US Workers are Far Better Off Than Four Years Ago
September 6, 2024In the Battle Against Inflation, We’ve Already Gone the Last Mile
September 5, 2024Diverting Class Warfare Into Generational Warfare
September 4, 2024Mixed Story: What the Revision to the Jobs Data Means
August 22, 2024The Washington Post’s Conservative Columnists Just Make it Up
August 21, 2024Is Drill Everywhere Good for the Oil Companies?
August 16, 2024Manufacturing Jobs: Unions Made Them Good, Not the Factories
August 8, 2024How Bad Was the July Jobs Report?
August 6, 2024McDonald’s Profits Are Up 31% Since the Pandemic, NPR Tells Us It Is a Victim of Inflation
August 1, 2024The High Cost of Protectionism: AI Edition
July 30, 2024GDP Grows 2.8 Percent In Second Quarter, Led by Equipment Investment and Durable Consumption
July 26, 2024Time for the Fed to Cut Interest Rates
July 10, 2024The NYT and the Low-Wage Worker
July 9, 2024Trump Wants to Make Coal Mining Jobs a Big Election Issue and the Washington Post is Ready to Help
June 28, 2024The Labor Price of Gas is at Trumpian Levels
June 25, 2024We Can’t Have a New Paradigm as Long as People Think the Old One Was Free-Market Fundamentalism
June 20, 2024Making the Bad Economy Case: College Grad Edition II
June 19, 2024No, the Savings Rate Is Not Near a Record Low
June 6, 2024The Social Security Crisis Myth
June 5, 2024Global Warming and the “Threat” of Cheap TVs
May 27, 2024Social Security: Productivity Growth and the Scary Stories About Rising Retiree to Worker Ratios
May 22, 2024The Problem With Electric Vehicles
May 17, 2024
