Dean Baker

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

Mamdani’s Brilliant Campaign

When Will Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Show Up in the Data?

ThePatriotOasis, Elon Musk, and Defamation in a Reformed Section 230 World

Don’t Buy the Scare About Social Security

The New York Times Lies Bigly About Iran

Trump’s Big Tax Hike

Trumpcession Watch: Unemployment Claims Move Higher

Inside the MAGA Mind: Musk Could Apologize to Trump, But Not to the American People

China Now Projected to Grow Three Times as Fast as the United States

Will the Deficits Created by Trump’s Tax Cuts Leave the US Unprepared to Deal With a Recession?

The Bad News About the May Jobs Report

Fun With Drugs

The Amazing Story About AIDS in Africa that Elon Musk’s Chainsaw Killed

My Abundance Agenda

Foreign Students Aren’t Just a Large Source of Export Revenue, They Were a Rapidly Growing One

Trump Wants to Make Mortgages More Expensive to Make His Friends Richer

What the FDA’s Decision on the New COVID Boosters Tells Us

Mad Money: Why the Markets are Angry at Trump

Can David Brooks Stop Lying?

Trump’s War on Universities Increases the Trade Deficit

Where’s My $5K DOGE Check?

No Taxes for Guys Named Joe: Trump’s Overtime Tax Exemption

The Path to Medicare for All

A Wall of Receipts for the Trump Presidency

Trump Wants Cheap Drugs, So Should We All

Tariffs Are Taxes on Us, Not Them

Free Trade Dogma Runs Very Deep

Q1: China Adds More than $400 Billion to GDP, Trump Loses $25 Billion

Trump Wants Your Kids to Work for $21 an Hour

Donald Trump Versus Cheating Penguins

Wage Growth Slowed in April

Silliness on the First Quarter GDP

Trump’s Attack on NIH Will Mean Fewer Drugs and Likely More Expensive Ones

The Deportation Drive: Trump Promised Millions of Dangerous Criminals

How Much Have Elon Musk and the DOGE Boys Cost Us?

Trump’s Now You See Them, Now You Don’t Tariffs

China’s Growth Leaves Trump’s MAGA USA in the Dust

Iron Dome Technology: Elon Musk’s License to Steal Taxpayers’ Dollars

Section 230: We Really Should Talk About It

Trump’s Tariff Policy is Costing the US Bigly

Unchecked Power to Total Jerks

Limiting the President’s Authority is a Good Idea

Five Facts About Trade You Don’t Read in the Newspaper

Our Huge Trade Deficit with China Does NOT Give Us the Upper Hand in Tax (Tariff) War

Trump’s Big Wealth Tax

Trump’s Tariffs Open the Door for Medicare for All

Dr. Trump’s Crazy Tariff Formula

The Fruits of Trump Tariffs: Closer Ties Between Canada and China

Five Alarm Fire on SignalGate

Five Things Elon Musk Doesn’t Want You to Know About Social Security