Dean Baker

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

Cheap Drugs Matter: Why Make Them More Expensive With Patent Monopolies?

Trumpian Excuses on the Texas Flood Deaths

Trumpian Excuses on Texas Flood Deaths

Trump’s Tariffs and Price Gouging Restaurants

Days After Giving Big Tax Cuts to Billionaires, Trump to Hit Workers with $2 Trillion Tax Increase

Republicans Love the Government and Democrats Who Claim Otherwise are Jerks

Can We Stop Calling Them Populist Tax Cuts?

Inside the June Jobs Report

How Many People Have to Die to Keep a 79-Year-Old Man Suffering from Dementia Happy?

May Consumption Data Looks Pretty Bad

Continuing Unemployment Claims Rise Again

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