Dean Baker
Exporters Aren’t Eating the Tariffs, We Are
January 20, 2026Can the AI Folks Save Democracy?
January 19, 2026The Billionaires and the November Elections
January 15, 2026A Gradual Weakening of the Economy
January 12, 2026Walz Pulls Out: Score Another Another One for Racism, Coupled with Democratic Party and Media Ineptitude
January 8, 2026Venezuela Will Pay for Its Own Reconstruction
January 7, 2026The Minnesota Day Care Fraud Story: Trump Says Fraud is a Big Problem When Black People Do It
January 6, 2026Fraud, Drugs, and Hope for 2026
January 5, 2026Did Mark Zuckerberg Throw $77 Billion in Our Money Into the Toilet?
December 31, 2025The Washington Post’s Trumpian Ideology Exposed
December 29, 2025The Rich Control the Media, But Whining Isn’t a Strategy
December 25, 2025How Many Manufacturing Jobs Has Trump Actually Lost?
December 24, 2025Public Makes Trillions on Plunging Crypto
December 23, 2025Trump Economy: One Doll, But Multiple Jobs
December 22, 2025How Jeff Bezos Uses the Washington Post to Promote Inequality
December 18, 2025Health Care is Hard, Lying Republicans Make It Harder
December 17, 2025Europe Needs an Ally Against Russia and Trump: China
December 15, 2025In Search of Trump’s Booming Economy
December 12, 2025Glimmers of a Post-Trump World
December 11, 2025New York Times Gets the Story on Prescription Drug Prices Wrong
December 11, 2025GAO Identifies Fraud Risk in Obamacare Exchanges. Where Was DOGE?
December 10, 2025Trump Gives the Country an Economics Lesson on Tariffs
December 9, 2025Dollar Stores: Where Trumpian Sleaze Meets Affordability
December 8, 2025Fun With Money: Trump’s One Percent Interest Rate
December 5, 2025Trumpian Nonsense on Employing Native-Born Workers
December 3, 2025Trump Crazy #27542: Replacing the Income Tax with Tariffs
December 2, 2025Trump RX: The Merger of Pharma Corruption and Trump Crazy
December 1, 2025Ezra Klein Needs to Look More Closely at His Housing Chart
November 26, 2025The Economy After the September Jobs Report
November 24, 2025The Rich People Who Own the Media Want Generations to Fight, Not Classes
November 21, 2025Inherited Economies
November 20, 2025Trump’s “New” Ideas on Health Care
November 19, 202550 Year Mortgages: What Bill Pulte Does When He Isn’t Reviewing Mortgages of Trump’s Enemies
November 17, 2025The Weakening Labor Market: Big Jump in People Looking for Holiday Jobs
November 14, 2025The Absolutely Crazy Story Behind Trump’s $2,000 Tariff Rebate Checks
November 13, 2025Tariff Dividend Checks for Dummies (i.e., the People in Policy Debates)
November 12, 2025Will the Supreme Court Nix Trump’s Tariffs and Save the GOP in 2026?
November 7, 2025Trump Family Wealth Accumulation and SNAP Benefits
November 6, 2025Why is Health Care Expensive?
November 5, 2025Chinese AI Seems to be Leaping Ahead
November 3, 2025The Cult of Affordability and the Labor Market
November 1, 2025The Taxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful New Ballroom
October 31, 2025The Economics of Crazy
October 29, 2025Treasury’s $2 Trillion Payment to Trump? It’s Very MAGA
October 27, 2025No, Economists Didn’t Get It Wrong on Trump’s Tariffs
October 24, 2025Road Map to the Shutdown
October 23, 2025