Dean Baker
The Estate Tax Exemption is $27.2 Million for a Couple
March 6, 2024Millions of People Who Could Benefit from Obamacare Don’t Because They Don’t Know About It, and Neither Does the New York Times
February 27, 2024The Sham “The Economy Is Awful” Story
February 26, 2024Biden’s Record on Income Growth
February 16, 2024Do You Want to Subsidize Rich People’s Political Contributions?
February 12, 2024Elon Musk’s $56 Billion Pay Package Nixed as Unfair to Shareholders
February 5, 2024The Great Economy Trump Left Biden
January 19, 2024Neo-Liberalism is Not Dead, It Never Lived
January 17, 2024The Really Big Lie on Trade Policy
January 10, 2024Government-Granted Patent Monopolies are Not the Free Market
January 5, 2024Wages and Prices: Who Is Keeping Up with What?
December 22, 2023The National Debt, Tax Farming and Patent Monopolies
December 21, 2023Dealing with Patent Monopolies and High Prices
December 14, 2023Strong Job Growth Pushes Unemployment Rate Down to 3.7 Percent
December 11, 2023Issues With the Savings Rate: Why the Falloff May be Over-Rated
December 8, 2023Profit Shares Defy Projections, Not Coming Down
December 6, 2023How Does a Person’s Lived Experience Tell them the Local Economy Is Good, but the National Economy is in the Tank?
December 5, 2023Prescription Drugs, Free Trade and the Washington Post
November 30, 2023Social Security and Medicare: Fun with Numbers Time
November 27, 2023Trade, Climate Change and the Press
November 22, 2023Should We be Worried About the Deficit Now?
November 17, 2023The Party of Working People Wants to Open the Door to Rich Shoplifters and Make Life Difficult for Hardworking People
November 10, 2023The Big Lie About Inequality
November 9, 2023Rising Unemployment or Strong Job Growth: What Is the October Story?
November 7, 2023Ady Barkan: a Great Organizer and a Great Human
November 3, 2023The Return of the Aging Crisis: a Diversion From Inequality
November 2, 2023How to Fight Billionaires’ Control of the Media
October 31, 2023It’s Time to Lower Interest Rates
October 16, 2023Putting Ukraine Spending in Context
October 13, 2023Jobs Jump in September, But Wage Growth Moderates
October 9, 2023The Big Three’s CEOs are Ripping Off Their Companies
October 6, 2023Team Billionaire is Winning
October 5, 2023Yes, Trump’s Lies on Financial Statements Did Cost Businesses Money
September 29, 2023Do People Really Expect Prices to Fall Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels?
September 25, 2023Quick Thoughts on the UAW Strike
September 18, 2023Section 230: Can We Talk About It?
September 13, 2023Should People be Happy About the Biden Economy?
September 6, 2023A Slightly Scary, But Overall Positive Jobs Report
September 5, 2023In His Next Term, Trump Will be Forecasting the Weather
September 4, 2023Can We Stop the Charade? It Was Never About “Free Trade”
September 1, 2023When AI Assists Workers, It’s Replacing Them
August 29, 2023