Dean Baker

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

Five Takeaways From the June Jobs Report

The Supreme Court Opens the Door to White Christian Only Government

Why People Say the Economy is Bad: Fees and Insurance

The Fast-Food Spending Index is Falling Fast

Abundance Jumps the Shark

Does US AI Depend on Big Companies Throwing Money in the Toilet? The Chinese Competition

GOP Claims of “Massive Fraud” Imply the Musk is a Moron

The Mixed Legacy of Alan Greenspan

Kevin Warsh, Fed Transparency, and Corruption

Wealth and the Political Power of Billionaires

SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Greatest Scam? Mr. Arithmetic Weighs In

The Real Abundance Agenda: Weakening Patent and Copyright Monopolies

Inflation and Revisiting Section 230: Make Musk and Zuckerberg Pay

The Social Security Shortfall and Trump’s Big Military Budget

The AI Bubble Monitor: The Lay of the Land

Five Big Takeaways From the May Jobs Report

Notes on the Latest Jobs Report

Cancelling Billionaires: a Review

The Trumpers Are Taking Over the Media: We Can Do Something Other Than Whine

A Free Market Approach to Healthcare: Lower Costs and Better Outcomes

Chasing Away Immigrants Doesn’t Help Native Born Workers

Fast Food Going Down: What We Learned From the April Consumer Data

JD Vance’s Racist “Fraud” Task Force

Four Reasons We’re Being Lied To

Bursting the AI Bubble: the Fed Could End the “Who Could’ve Known” Defense

Wall Street Says That a Company That Loses Billions is Worth Trillions

Forget Citizens United, Think Media

Kevin Warsh’s First Fed Meeting: I Almost Feel Sorry for the Pathetic, Power-Hungry Jerk

Waiting for the AI Bubble to Burst: Great Collapses of the Past

Idiot Speak: Elon Musk’s Plans for Gutting Social Security and a Universal High Income

Import Prices Soar: Trump Says Exporters Too Low IQ to Eat the Tariffs

Keeping Score: China and the USA

Trump Accounts and the No Economist Left Behind Test

AI Won’t Necessarily Lead to Mass Unemployment: The Case of the Financial Industry

The Trump Corruption Tax on the Oil Industry

Trump Accounts Are a Sick Joke, Not a Threat to Social Security

On the April Jobs Report

Is Chinese AI the Remedy to Inequality?

Purdue Pharma Bites the Dust: Can We Learn Anything?

Five Takeaways from the First Quarter GDP Report

Investment and Government Spending Boost GDP, While Inflation Climbs to 4.5 Percent

Jerome Powell at the Fed: an Appraisal

Will Gravity Pull Down the AI Bubble?

Trump Hits a Home Run for the Green Transition

Trump’s Ignorance Could Kill Millions

Bad Vibes and the Trump Betrayal

We Don’t Need Billionaires, and We Can Structure the Market So We Don’t Have Them

Are Republicans Killing You?

A $600 Billion Increase for the Military is a Ton of Money

The Stock Market is Not Your Friend