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Baker: Stopping Foreclosures With the Right to Rent: One More Time
Znet Article, November, 17 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Politicians often prefer complex solutions to simple problems. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the long list of complicated and convoluted proposals to address the country's foreclosure crisis.
Baker: President Obama's Path to Greatness: Health Care As Stimulus
Znet Article, November, 05 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
President Obama will have a historic opportunity to establish himself as a truly great president in his first days in office. He can take advantage of the current economic crisis to announce plans to jump start national health care insurance. Exte...
Monbiot: The Triumph of Ignorance
Commentary, November, 01 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind's closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, D...
Chomsky: The Economy
Video, October, 23 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
the immediate crisis that's on the front pages is the financial crisis. The credit system has frozen, so banks don't lend to each other, they don't trust each other. The housing market has collapsed. These are things that, of course, influence peo...
Baker: Peter Peterson's Bad Economics
Znet Article, October, 22 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Advocates of cutting social security and Medicare in the US are using the financial crisis as a pretext to further their agenda.
Sandronsky: Reforming the U.S. Education System
Znet Article, September, 29 2008
Seth Sandronsky
Sandronsky's ZSpace page
Charter schools, begun two decades ago to spur innovation in learning and teaching, have been a force to push out labor unions...
Albert: Gender In Venezuela
Znet Article, September, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In early September Michael Albert went to Venezuela and interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian Revolution. Here is the first, about the role and situation of women, held with Nora Castañeda, head of the Women's Bank in Venezuela and prom...
Baker: Slinging Mud to Hide the Real Dirt
Znet Article, September, 18 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The McCain-Palin ticket has developed an interesting campaign strategy. They don't want the public to see their plans to dismantle Social Security, Medicare, and the system of employer-provided health care. To distract people from these policies t...
Klein: New Orleans: The City That Won't Be Ignored
Znet Article, September, 08 2008
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
The early results are in: Hurricane Gustav has helped John McCain's bid for the White House. This is nothing short of incredible.
Lendman: Katrina Redux
Znet Article, September, 05 2008
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
According to The New York Times, New Orleans' levees "were tested by a heavy storm surge but held, even though the repair and reconstruction work from Hurricane Katrina, is far from finished....waves pounded against a floodwall on the Inner Harbor...
Zirin: Gustav and the Dome
Znet Article, September, 02 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
Witness the massive padlock, tightly hugging its doors. That will tell you all you need to know about Hurricane Gustav and the federal government’s carefully orchestrated response. The padlock, roughly the size of a Frisbee, is set firmly around t...
Baker: The Housing Bubble Villains Deny Responsibility
Znet Article, August, 28 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The central bankers of the world gathered last weekend for their annual meeting at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This was an opportunity to talk about the major issues confronting the world economy, as well as an opportunity to spend some time in a very ...
Sinclair: Don't let the horror make you abandon the bus
Znet Article, August, 11 2008
Ian Sinclair
Sinclair's ZSpace page
Travelling by bus...
Solomon: Democratic Platform Option: "Guaranteed Health Care for All"
Commentary, August, 02 2008
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
In the presidential race, with "health care" a frequent topic, John McCain offers more capitulation to the insurance industry. Speaking in the usual GOP terms, he calls for "ridding the market of both needless and costly regulations." Under his pl...
Ehrenreich: Suicide Solution
Znet Article, July, 30 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
A few days before Congress passed its Housing Bill, Carlene Balderrama of Taunton, MA found her own solution to the housing crisis. Just a little over two hours in advance of the time her mortgage company, PHH Mortgage Corporation -- may its nam...
Baker: After the Housing Bill: Time to Address Foreclosures
Znet Article, July, 28 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Last week Congress finally passed its long-debated housing bill. In addition to securing the multimillion-dollar salaries of the top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and protecting their shareholders from facing the full consequences of t...
Baker: Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
Znet Article, July, 27 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Billionaire investment banker Peter Peterson is back on the warpath. He just established a new foundation with a $1 billion endowment, the main purpose of which is to cut back spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Baker: Housing Market Meltdown Causes Massive Losses
Znet Article, July, 13 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Plummeting house prices will leave millions of homeowners dependent almost exclusively on Social Security in their retirement.
Sandronsky: Taxing U.S. Stocks and Bonds
Commentary, July, 10 2008
Seth Sandronsky
Sandronsky's ZSpace page
Listen. Hear the air blowing from the once huge bubble of U.S. home prices. It's a multi-trillion dollar loss of wealth. This path of ruin is large and growing.
Baker: Barack Care Versus John Care: Health Care Under the Next President
Znet Article, June, 30 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
By far the most important domestic policy issue facing the next president will be fixing the health care system. The United States stands out among wealthy countries in not guaranteeing health insurance to its citizens.
