The Tariffs Don’t Seem to be Working: Trade Deficit Soars in August

Dean Baker October 6, 2026

Cities Keep Spending Taxpayer Money for Sports Stadiums, Yet the Economics Almost Never Makes Sense

Abigail Hall – Aaron D. Wood October 2, 2026

Why Fuel Prices May Go Higher Still

Joshua Busby – Greg Pollack September 30, 2026

Where Are the Articles About Young People Giving Up on Homeownership?

Dean Baker September 25, 2026

AI Bubble Economics: The Coming Crash and The Day After

Joseph Grosso September 18, 2026

Trump’s Latest Joke: the $5,000 Dividend

Dean Baker September 17, 2026

Capitalism or a New Feudalism?

David S. D’Amato September 15, 2026

The Price of Cars in the CPI and the Real World

Dean Baker September 15, 2026

The Timing of the AI Bubble Burst and the Subprime Collapse

Dean Baker September 14, 2026

Dealing With the AI Productivity Boom: We Do Know How to Share the Wealth

Dean Baker September 8, 2026

Trump Can’t Remember Whether He Wanted Higher or Lower Trade Deficits

Dean Baker September 7, 2026

Economic Nationalism and the World Order

Seth Sandronsky September 4, 2026

The Money is Still Not Showing Up for the Big AI Companies

Dean Baker August 21, 2026

Economic Fascism and the “Megadeal”

David S. D’Amato August 20, 2026

Consumers are Footing the Bill for Trumps “Forever” Tariffs

Kent Jones August 20, 2026

Trump Grift vs. the Biden Crime Family

Dean Baker August 13, 2026

Trump’s $24 Billion Tax on 401(K)s

Dean Baker August 12, 2026

U.S. Teen Unemployment

Seth Sandronsky August 7, 2026

What the Democrats Need to Do to Defend and Strengthen Social Security

Bernie Sanders August 6, 2026

Consuming Contradictions

Seth Sandronsky July 31, 2026

California’s Wealth Tax: A Chance to Express Your Opinion on Billionaires

Dean Baker July 27, 2026

How Bezos and the Tech Bros Made Greed Godly

Pete Tucker July 23, 2026

Exporters Still Are Not Eating the Trump Tariffs: They are Taxes on Us

Dean Baker July 21, 2026

No Path Forward, No Way Back, Imperial Decline Edition

Rob Urie July 17, 2026

Social Security is a Problem of Income Distribution, Not Demographics

Dean Baker July 17, 2026

2.6 Million Americans Lost Health Insurance in 2025 After ACA Subsidies Expired, Leading to Real Health Consequences

Aparna Soni July 15, 2026

Industrial Policy is Like Dieting, We Always Do It

Dean Baker July 14, 2026

The Fraudulent War on Medicaid Fraud

Eileen Appelbaum July 10, 2026

If Your Financial Advisor Recommends Putting Money Into Trump Accounts, Fire Them!

Dean Baker July 9, 2026

The Problem With Trump’s Baby Accounts

Dean Baker July 8, 2026

Americans are Not as Well Off as People in Peer Nations: US Safety Net’s Shortfalls Show up in Global Data

Stephen Bagwell – Susan Randolph July 8, 2026

Why Today’s Global Tech War Needs Yesterday’s History

Jianlu Bi July 6, 2026

Our Safety Net Was Already Full of Holes. Now They’re Only Getting Bigger

Jessie Sicley July 6, 2026

For Millions of Impoverished Americans, an Unhappy National Birthday

Michael Slager July 1, 2026

A Hard Reset for Corporate Power

David S. D’Amato July 1, 2026

AI Abundance: the Clarity Act and the Stablcoin Wars

Ellen Brown July 1, 2026

Solidarity Strikes and Taft-Hartley’s Long Shadow

Hayley Brown June 30, 2026

Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Fortune is a Flashing Warning Light for Democracy

Chuck Collins June 29, 2026

Abundance Jumps the Shark

Dean Baker June 29, 2026

How Public Benefit Claims Work…and Why Their Assumptions Matter

Reynard Loki June 29, 2026

Does US AI Depend on Big Companies Throwing Money in the Toilet? The Chinese Competition

Dean Baker June 26, 2026

The Cruelty and Futility of Criminalizing the Homeless

Farrah Hassen June 26, 2026

US-Instigated Humanitarian Crisis Forces Cuba to Adopt Major Economic Changes

W. T. Whitney June 26, 2026

The Left and Breaching Capitalism’s Digital Fortress

Rezgar Akrawi June 26, 2026

GOP Claims of “Massive Fraud” Imply the Musk is a Moron

Dean Baker June 25, 2026

The Mixed Legacy of Alan Greenspan

Dean Baker June 24, 2026

Wealth and the Political Power of Billionaires

Dean Baker June 19, 2026

SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Greatest Scam? Mr. Arithmetic Weighs In

Dean Baker June 18, 2026

The $2.13 Subminimum Wage: When is Enough Enough?

Sylvia Allegretto June 16, 2026

The Social Security Shortfall and Trump’s Big Military Budget

Dean Baker June 15, 2026