Dean Baker
Still No Jobs Report, But the Labor Market Doesn’t Look Good
October 21, 2025The Trump Boom: a Legend in His Own Mind
October 20, 2025Republican Glory Days? The Pre-Obamacare Insurance Market
October 17, 2025The AI Bubble and Counterfeit Money
October 15, 2025Health Care Cost Growth Slowed Sharply After Obamacare
October 6, 2025Thoughts From the Shutdown
October 3, 2025The Fast Food Index is Looking Bleak
October 2, 2025The Economy Grew at a 1.6 Percent Rate in the First Half
October 1, 2025The “Free Market”: The Fatal Error of the Foundational Myth of Center-Left Politics
September 30, 2025Slowing Global Warming Does Address Affordability
September 29, 2025Shakedown Shack: The Trump White House
September 26, 2025Trump’s Attacks on Jobs Numbers Are Noise But Still Dangerous
September 25, 2025The European Union is Working Less But Doing Fine
September 24, 2025Why the Bursting of the AI Bubble Would Be Good for the Economy
September 23, 2025Lessons from Jimmy Kimmel: The Media Don’t Have to Be Controlled by the Rich
September 22, 2025Trump’s Campaign Against Lisa Cook
September 19, 2025Cheap Advice for the Fed
September 17, 2025Trump, Pulte, and Lisa Cook: Rich People Lie, Consequences are for Others
September 16, 2025Trump Goes Full MAGA on Jobs for Black Workers
September 11, 2025The Big Scandal Involves Bill Pulte Not Lisa Cook
September 8, 2025Fewer Immigrants Means Fewer Workers, Less Growth
September 5, 2025The Rich Wrote the Laws So that They Get all the Money, While the Left Was Sleeping
September 4, 2025Being a Reserve Currency is Not a Zero-One Proposition
September 1, 2025MAGA 2.0: Making China Great Again
August 27, 2025Putting Universal Medicare Front and Center
August 26, 2025Trump Corruption and the Governor Lisa Cook Mortgage Case
August 25, 2025Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest: Native Born Employment is Not Surging
August 20, 2025The Unemployment Rate for Black Workers Rises Sharply
August 18, 2025Trump’s Craziness on BLS
August 13, 2025The Impact of Trump Tariffs on the Trade Deficit
August 12, 2025In Trump’s Competition with China, China is Winning
August 11, 2025Trump’s Team of Cowards
August 7, 2025Remember When the Democrats Lost the Elections Because of Fears About Inflation? The NYT Doesn’t
August 6, 2025The Proud Republican History of Paranoia and Anti-Semitism About Government Statistics
August 5, 2025The Jobs Report: Why July Was Bad News
August 4, 2025Trump’s Craziness on the Fed
August 1, 2025Reality Check: The Hard Economic Data Are Not Good
July 31, 2025The Midsummer Economy: Going Downhill Slowly
July 23, 2025Trump Hits Amazon with 50 Percent Tariffs
July 17, 2025