Showing posts with label dean baker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dean baker. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Dean Baker on why the payroll tax holiday is a problem

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Following up on two earlier posts today, one quoting Dean Baker and the other on the payroll tax holiday, I see that Baker has commented on ...

Dean Baker explains the eurozone mess

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Dean Baker provides an accessible explanation of the euro crisis in The eurozone crisis is not about market discipline Aljazeera English 1...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

S&P and the US credit downgrade

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Dean Baker has a good analysis of S&P's ludicrous action in downgrading the credit of the United States in How to Think About Standa...
Monday, August 01, 2011

Why economist Dean Baker is good reading

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Dean Baker has been cranking out the posts at his Beat the Press blog the last few days on the economy and the debt ceiling fiasco. Here ar...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Dean Baker on the causes of the current federal deficit

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Dean Baker in President Obama Doesn't Understand the Origins of the Deficit FDL 07/26/2011 catches the President misstating the recent...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Debt ceiling play-acting

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Dean Baker on what a phony show this whole business of Obama negotiating with the Republicans over the debt ceiling really is: The Endgame o...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

National income accounting and the federal deficit

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Earlier this month, Dean Baker gave a good summary of the concept of national income accounting in Has Anyone at the Washington Post Heard o...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

What happens when the deficit deal gets done? How much of Social Security will be left?

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Simpson-Bowles policy for seniors: Let them eat catfood! I've come across several good items warning that we need to watch out for the...
Friday, February 18, 2011

The Beltway Village agrees to declare economic reality null and void

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I'm always aware that two-party politics in the United States gives political conversation a kind of binomial character. People can be q...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Obama, the Democratic base and the dilemma of Democratic progressives

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Dean Baker succinctly summarizes the essential dilemma of base activists in the Democratic Party today - "base activists" being mo...
Friday, December 03, 2010

Dean Baker describes the housing bubble and how it hammered consumer demand

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Economist Dean Baker shares his calculations of how the housing bubble ended up in the current depression (or Great Recession, if you prefer...
Friday, February 20, 2009

What's up with that anti-Social-Security "fiscal responsibility" summit on Monday?

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Jane Hamsher at FireDogLake has been actively pursuing the anti-Social-Security jihad being bankrolled by reactionary billionaire McCain-Pal...