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Baker: Insurance Fraud: One for the Redundancy Department?
Znet Article, June, 16 2008
Dean Baker
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The health insurance system in the United States works great, as long as you stay healthy. It's only people who need medical care who have problems.
Baker: Firefighters and Prescription Drugs
Znet Article, June, 04 2008
Dean Baker
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Suppose your house is burning down with your family trapped inside. When the fire department arrives at the scene, they tell you the rescue will cost $1 million. After all, aren't your family and your house worth the money?
Baker: Green Stimulus: Let's Try Again
Znet Article, May, 28 2008
Dean Baker
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We should find forms of stimuli that can get the economy on a more energy-efficient path…
Baker: Low-Income Renters to Pay for Housing Bailout
Znet Article, May, 19 2008
Dean Baker
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Just to remind everyone of where things stand, Congress was wrestling with the situation of several million low- and moderate-income families, who are facing foreclosures on their homes. The main problem here is that they were pushed to buy over-p...
Baker: Universal Health Care or John Care
Znet Article, May, 12 2008
Dean Baker
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With the Democratic presidential race winding down, the presidential campaign can again focus on the real issues facing the country. At the top of the list, alongside ending the Iraq War, is providing universal health care.
Baker: Developing the New "Capitalists' Man"
Znet Article, April, 28 2008
Dean Baker
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In the wake of revolutions in Russia, China, Cuba, and elsewhere, there was talk of creating a new type of person with a socialist mindset. The idea was that people in the prerevolutionary capitalist societies had been educated to be individualist...
Baker: Homeownership: The Fast Path to Poverty
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Dean Baker
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The Commerce Department reported last month that homeownership among African Americans had dropped to 46.7 percent in the third quarter, three full percentage points below its peak level in 2004. This is a remarkably fast decline. In the last thre...
Baker: Can't Afford That Operation? Fly to Another Country
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Dean Baker
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The congressional budget office (CBO) releases its updated long-term projections for Medicare and Medicaid this week. They will almost certainly show a frightening story.
Baker: Social Security Scare Squad: Reason to Hate the Media #567,945
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Dean Baker
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Halloween has come and gone, but the Social Security Scare Squad (SSSS) refuses to take off their masks. This group of ghouls will not stop until they have substantially dismantled and/or privatized the nation's most important social program
Baker: The Homeownership Ideologues
Znet Article, April, 22 2008
Dean Baker
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The economy is sinking into a recession and faces the worst financial crisis since the depression. The unemployment rate is rising, the foreclosure rate is soaring and home prices are plummeting. It's time to settle some scores with the people who...
Baker: Testimony of Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Znet Article, April, 11 2008
Dean Baker
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Thank you, Chairman Dodd and Ranking Member Shelby, for inviting me to share my views on the mortgage crisis with the committee.
Baker: Economy Loses 83,000 Jobs, Unemployment Jumps to 5.1 Percent
Znet Article, April, 10 2008
Dean Baker
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The private sector is shedding jobs at the rate of almost 100,000 per month...
Baker: The Collapsing Housing Bubble and Resulting Financial Fallout
Znet Article, April, 02 2008
Dean Baker
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In the decade from 1996 to 2006, the United States developed an enormous housing bubble that had no precedent in the country's history. During this decade, house prices rose in excess of 70 percent of their historic trend rate of growth, creating ...
Baker: Bear Stearns in Bankruptcy: Can You Feel Their Pain?
Znet Article, March, 17 2008
Dean Baker
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According to the current plans being crafted in Washington, you will...
Baker: The War and the Recession
Znet Article, March, 12 2008
Dean Baker
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With the release of the February jobs numbers, everyone except for the economists now acknowledges we are in a recession. The economy is shedding jobs at a rapid pace and it is only a matter of time until we see the unemployment rate rising. In ad...
Baker: Does Ben Bernanke Have to Go?
Znet Article, February, 19 2008
Dean Baker
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This is a question that members of Congress should be asking right now. It is becoming increasing clear that we are facing the worst financial meltdown since the Depression, and Mr. Bernanke was caught asleep at the wheel.
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...
