For two years, Dean Baker has been floating the idea of a right-to-rent option that would provide significant help for homeowners facing foreclosure and that might even be politically palatable, … [Keep reading >>]
Unlike economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, Dean Baker hasn’t won the Nobel Prize. But like fellow progressives Krugman and Stiglitz (and that’s how they refer to themselves), Dean Baker … [Keep reading >>]
So Bush is releasing, at Obama’s request, that final $350 Billion for churning the economy. That was $700 billion total. I says to myself, says I, what if … [Keep reading >>]
As Bob Meyer said, closing the two hours with Dean Baker Friday night at the ILWU #34 Hall, “Who ever thought you’d be glued to your seat listening to an … [Keep reading >>]
James Galbraith: “Dean Baker foresaw the housing crisis, first, persistently, and almost alone, while
Bush fiddled, Congress snoozed, and the media looked resolutely the other way. In Plunder and Blunder, … [Keep reading >>]
Who would you pick to explain what’s wrong with the bailout and what could be done to bring a modicum of fairness to it before it’s rushed through? My first … [Keep reading >>]
The consensus among those who’ve been burned often by Republican rush to save themselves is that the Paulson Plan is a perfect example of Naomi Klein’s Disaster Capitalism. Whether … [Keep reading >>]
From Dean Baker at The American Prospect corrects a mighty misperception.
“Senator McCain likes to say that he supports free market health care, but it is not true and it is … [Keep reading >>]
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Tom Paine
---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal.
