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Baker: Insurers Whack Elderly to Celebrate New Year
Znet Article, January, 09 2008
Dean Baker
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What better way to start the new year than to sock it to grandma and grandpa with big price increases? That may not have been the exact nature of the conversation at the insurance companies that participate in the Medicare prescription drug plan, ...
Baker: Santa Claus Comes to Wall Street
Znet Article, December, 27 2007
Dean Baker
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Things have not gone well on Wall Street this year. Depending on the year-end news, the stock market looks at best to have eked out a small gain for the year. The record setting pace of mergers and buyouts in the winter and spring had dwindled to ...
Baker: Bailing out Wall Street - again
Znet Article, October, 20 2007
Dean Baker
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Twenty years ago the stock market experienced its largest single-day dive in history, with the Dow falling by 22.6%. The next day, Alan Greenspan, newly appointed as Federal Reserve chairman, ensured his everlasting status as a Wall Street icon by...
Baker: The Entertainment Industry Police Crackdown
Znet Article, October, 09 2007
Dean Baker
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The Entertainment Industry Police Crackdown
Baker: Alan Greenspan and His Bubbles
Znet Article, September, 19 2007
Dean Baker
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Alan Greenspan now says that we are seeing a housing bubble. He expects a large single-digit pri...
Baker: The Right to Unionize: Key to Democracy
Znet Article, September, 04 2007
Dean Baker
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For the last quarter c...
Baker: Save the Homeowners, Not the Hedge Funds
Znet Article, September, 03 2007
Dean Baker
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The mortgage-market me...
Baker: CNN vs. Michael Moore: Round ?
Znet Article, July, 17 2007
Dean Baker
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CNN vs. Michael Moore: Round ?
Baker: The RX From "SiCKO:" More Choice
Znet Article, July, 04 2007
Dean Baker
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The pundits are working overtime trying to defuse the me...
Baker: Home Values Slashed in Half? The Housing Bubble Is About to Burst
Znet Article, July, 01 2007
Dean Baker
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The latest data on housing sales showed that the inven...
Baker: America Since 1980: A Right Turn Leading to a Dead End
Znet Article, April, 28 2007
Dean Baker
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America Since 1980: A Right Turn Leading to a Dead End
Baker: The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst
Znet Article, March, 07 2007
Dean Baker
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The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst
Baker: Edwards Steps out Front on Health Care
Znet Article, February, 13 2007
Dean Baker
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For the people who will vote in the Democratic primaries next year, the Iraq War will rightly be the central issue. On this topic, it is worth noting that we already have a president who can't admit that he made a mistake. But, after Iraq, hea...
Baker: Wall Street Rules
Znet Article, June, 23 2006
Dean Baker
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The idea that the government, or some arm of government, is controlled by a special interest group naturally prompts outrage. The government should be answerable to the public as a whole, not special interests that have extraordinary political pow...
Baker: High-Powered Diplomacy at the UN
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Dean Baker
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High-Powered Diplomacy at the UN
Baker: none
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Dean Baker
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University of Chicago Press, 2000 Review by Edward Herman This fine book contends, and demonstrates compellingly, that the only “crisis” Social Security faces is posed by its enemies, who have created a phony one to provide...
