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Baker: For Greece There Is An Alternative To Austerity – As Argentina Proved
Znet Article, August, 03 2012
Dean Baker
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The IMF and Germany don't want Greece to know the truth – that a euro exit might lead to a stronger economy, not ruin
Baker: Raising the Minimum Wage Is Cheap and Easy
Znet Article, July, 28 2012
Dean Baker
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It should not be too much to expect that workers today should get at least as much as they did 45 years ago
Baker: New Housing Bubbles Set To Burst
Znet Article, July, 27 2012
Dean Baker
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Central banks and governments should focus on deflating bubbles before they grow large enough to be dangerous
Baker: Why Americans Should Work Less – The Way Germans Do
Znet Article, July, 10 2012
Dean Baker
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There is a solution to unemployment: if we worked the same shorter hours as Germany, we'd eliminate joblessness overnight
Baker: The Regulation Monster
Znet Article, June, 26 2012
Dean Baker
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The fact that Republican claims of massive regulatory burdens are so out of line with reality should be a cause of ridicule
Baker: Liberals Working for the Right
Znet Article, June, 20 2012
Dean Baker
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It is astounding how liberals are so happy to work for the right by implying that conservatives somehow just want to leave markets to themselves whereas
Baker: The Return of the Demographic Crisis
Znet Article, June, 15 2012
Dean Baker
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The idea that we should be troubled by the prospect of a stagnant or declining population is almost laughable
Baker: Robert Samuelson Shows that the Post Has no Fact Checkers on Its Opinion Pages
Znet Article, April, 23 2012
Dean Baker
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In the view of Samuelson and the Post, a dollar that is in the pocket of low or middle class people is a dollar that could be in the pocket of the rich
Baker: The Weather and the U.S. Economy
Znet Article, April, 11 2012
Dean Baker
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The unusually good weather this winter meant that we did not see the falloff in employment and growth that we would ordinarily expect
Baker: The United States as #2
Znet Article, April, 05 2012
Dean Baker
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By some measures, the Chinese economy has already overtaken the United States' economy
Baker: The Iceland Follies: Loony Currency Schemes
Znet Article, March, 08 2012
Dean Baker
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In a strange move, Iceland is considering adopting the Canadian dollar as its official currency
Baker: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Bowles-Simpson Commission Report
Znet Article, March, 07 2012
Dean Baker
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Supporters of the co-chairs' proposal have referred to the report as being the commission report, as though it actually had been approved
Baker: The Payroll Tax Law's Best Measure
Znet Article, February, 29 2012
Dean Baker
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Tucked in the small print of the payroll tax bill is a work-sharing plan that could save more than a million jobs this year
Baker: The Surefire Way to End Online Piracy: End Copyright
Znet Article, January, 24 2012
Dean Baker
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The vast majority of singers and musicians get almost nothing from copyright protection
Baker: Alan Greenspan's Ship of Fools
Znet Article, January, 22 2012
Dean Baker
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There is profound ignorance of the economy among the nation's top economic policymakers
Baker: The US Housing Bubble
Znet Article, January, 13 2012
Dean Baker
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Alan Greenspan should have led economists to document the potential harm of the bubble, and to burst it early
Baker: Obama's Stimulus Failure
Znet Article, December, 21 2011
Dean Baker
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The president could have rescued the economy by pushing for more stimulus. Not doing so was an error of epic proportions
Baker: The Stop Online Piracy Act: Class War in Cyberspace
Znet Article, December, 08 2011
Dean Baker
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The Stop Online Piracy Act is big government at its worst: an intrusion into the market to help the One Percent at the expense of everyone else
Baker: The Fed Must Step In
Znet Article, December, 07 2011
Dean Baker
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The European Central Bank has stubbornly refused to act as lender of last resort, but the eurozone economy is too big to fail
Baker: Time to Retake Politics From the One Percent in Both Political Parties
Znet Article, November, 30 2011
Dean Baker
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They have been fighting this class war for 30 years. It is long past time that the rest of us started fighting back
