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Znet Article Baker: John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet

Znet Article, June, 24 2008 Dean Baker
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That is not true, as far I know, but it makes about as much sense as McCain's plans to drill off the coast of Florida and in other environmentally sensitive areas. This is McCain's response to the pain of millions of families hit by $4 a gallon of...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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?

Znet Article 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…

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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, ...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Baker: The Entertainment Industry Police Crackdown

Znet Article, October, 09 2007 Dean Baker
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The Entertainment Industry Police Crackdown

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Baker: The Right to Unionize: Key to Democracy

Znet Article, September, 04 2007 Dean Baker
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For the last quarter c...

Znet Article Baker: Save the Homeowners, Not the Hedge Funds

Znet Article, September, 03 2007 Dean Baker
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The mortgage-market me...

Znet Article Baker: CNN vs. Michael Moore: Round ?

Znet Article, July, 17 2007 Dean Baker
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CNN vs. Michael Moore: Round ?

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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

Znet Article Baker: The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst

Znet Article, March, 07 2007 Dean Baker
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The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst

Znet Article 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...

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