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Audit The Fed Effort Wins Support From An Unusual Coalition

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Max Bauchus, Watt Amendment, Frank, Barney Frank, Aig, Alan Grayson, Lobbyblog, Barney, Rob Johnson, Mel Watt, Audit the Fed, Dean Baker, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

An unusual coalition of progressive economists, labor leaders, and bloggers has decided to fight back against a congressional amendment that would all...

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Protestors to Goldman Sachs: "You Are Not God" - Bernanke Explains Why

Mike Elk | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Financial Transaction Tax, Federal Reserve, National People's Action, Manufacturing, Ben Bernanke, Dean Baker, Politics News
Mike Elk

Goldman Sachs is, in the words of Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."

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Dean Baker: Job Sharing Could Ease Unemployment

The Atlantic Business Channel | Derek Thompson | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Stimulus Plan, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Job Sharing, Jobs, Paul Krugman, Payroll, Recession, Dean Baker, Business News

Paul Krugman today solidifies his membership in the Job Squad, that growing contingent of bloggers and policy mavens calling for a new stimulus direct...

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How to Abort the Recovery

Robert Kuttner | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Nancy Pelosi, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Medicare, Peter Orszag, Kent Conrad, Peter G. Peterson, Dean Baker, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

As unemployment continues to rise, deficit hawks are upping their efforts to use the economic crisis as a pretext for gutting basic social programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

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Why "Too Big To Fail" Is A Government Subsidy For Mega Banks

zero hedge | Tyler Durden | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Economic Stimulus Package, Too Big to Fail, Banks, Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, Dean Baker, Business News

Even as Tim Geithner was boldly lying today on national TV, claiming that he abhors the concept of too big to fail, and condemns moral hazard, behind ...

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Jason Linkins

The New Yorker's Larry Summers Profile: What Was Left Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Unemployment, Derivatives, Larry Summers, Financial Crisis, Ryan Lizza, Felix Salmon, Dean Baker, Media News

One would expect Ryan Lizza's epic New Yorker piece on Larry Summers to be somewhat glossy, but, yeah: you can basically tape this piece to the back of your child's Halloween costume for traffic safety.

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Dean Baker: The Economy Loses 824,000 Jobs And The Washington Post Doesn't Notice

The American Prospect | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Unemployment Numbers, Beat the Press, Newspapers, Unemployment, Labor Department, Media Coverage, Washington Post, Newspaper Fail, Media News, Job Loss Numbers, Dean Baker, Media News

One of the big pieces of news in the September jobs report released by the Labor Department yesterday was that the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) p...

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Senator Kennedy's Most Important Vote

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Afghanistan Withdrawal Timetable, Jim McGovern, Ted Kennedy, Dean Baker, Politics News
Robert Naiman

Only a few have noted what Senator Kennedy himself said was the most important vote he ever cast in the U.S. Senate: his vote against the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

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'Right To Rent' - To Avoid Foreclosure Borrowers Should Be Allowed To Rent Their Own Homes: Dean Baker

Los Angeles Times | Jon Healey | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure, Right to Rent, Mortgage, Rent, Dean Baker, Business News

Less than 10% of homeowners facing foreclosure have benefited from the Obama administration's mortgage modification program, according to a Treasury D...

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Sam Stein

Geithner Bank Plan Faces New Wave Of Criticism

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Toxic Assets Geithner, Geithner's Plan, Geithner Assets, Geithner Plan, Mark Thoma, Jame Galbraith, Economist Geithner, Bank Assets, Rob Shapiro, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Timothy Geithner, Geithner Bank Plan, Dean Baker, Politics News

Two weeks after being introduced, Timothy Geithner's bank rescue plan is facing a new round of withering criticism from economists who say the proposa...

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Robert Rubin: Coward or Liar -- or Both?

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Citibank, Robert Rubin, Financial Crisis, Debt, Working Life, Housing Crisis, Dean Baker, Bill Clinton, Economy, Treasury, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

It's Judgment Day. Rubin needs to get a pink slip and stand on the unemployment line with the vast sea of people he helped put there.

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Obama, Healthcare Reform, and the Baucus White Paper: Redefining the Center

RJ Eskow | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Health Plan, Health Insurance, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Max Baucus, Obama Transition, Obama Administration, Healthcare Reform, Health Reform, Kaiser Family Foundation, Barack Obama, Dean Baker, Acos, Health, Health Care, Politics News
RJ Eskow

My guess is that Obama will take a rapid but incrementalist approach -- call it "all deliberate speed" -- built around a consensus when it comes to a health care plan.

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Requiem for the Bailout Storyline

Norman Solomon | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: James K. Galbraith, Robert Reich, Wall Street Crisis, McClatchy Newspapers, Economy, David Brooks, New York Times, Institute for Policy Studies, $700 Billion Bailout, Congress, News Media, Economic Stimulus, Center for Economic and Policy Research, President Bush, Dow, Dean Baker, Media News
Norman Solomon

Recent events should not be allowed to obscure the reality that the news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust.

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Q&A with Dean Baker -- No Financial Plan B?

Terrence McNally | Posted 11.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Markets, Bailout, Economy, Henry Paulson, Media Dishonesty, Ben Bernanke, Obama, Mccain, Dean Baker, Home News
Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally interviews Dean Baker 10/07/08 Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (cepr.net), is the author of T...

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Behind Wall Street's Collapse

Walden Bello | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Bailout, Wall Street, Rosa Luxemberg, Cdos, Wall Street Bailout, International Monetary Fund, Argentina, Reaganism, Collatorized Debt Obligations, International Financing Review, Klaus Schwab, Internet Bubble, Imf, Stock Market, Dean Baker, Great Depression, World Economic Forum, Financialization, Technology-Stock Bubble, Economic Bubble, Bankruptcy, Golden Age of Contemporary Capitalism, Brazil, Fannie Mae, U.S. Treasury Department, Recession, Financial Collapse, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Ben Bernanke, Neoliberal Restructuring, China, Business News
Walden Bello

In a nutshell, the Wall Street meltdown is not only due to greed and to the lack of government regulation of a hyperactive sector.

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Into The Abyss: Millions Face Old-Age With No Savings

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Retirement, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Housing Crisis, Dean Baker, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

It was probably pretty obvious but there is a damning report out yesterday that paints a stark picture: the collapse of the housing bubble has creat...

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