Dean Baker

If you don't own the nukes, the threat, as the economist Dean Baker has poetically phrased it, becomes “an empty water pistol pointed at our head.” The Chinese have played this card effectively in the past because the U.S. has never called their bluff. Beijing is counting on the current market turbulence to ...

Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, concluded in a 2016 analysis that "the TPP is a deal about redistributing more income upward". "It's imposing more competition on those at the middle and the bottom while maintaining and increasing forms of protectionism that ...

You can relax: There is “zero doubt that Social Security will be there for millennials,” says Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Even if nothing is done to shore up the system, Baker says people retiring in 30 to 40 years can count on about 10% more money, ...

In late March, Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) introduced a bill to reinstate the gold standard. It would set the value of the U.S. dollar to “a fixed weight of gold” and require the Federal Reserve to exchange paper notes for gold upon request. The idea, which economists widely deride, would severely restrict the ...

Economists typically expect that an employer-side payroll tax will come out of wages. They don't care whether they pay wages to the worker or taxes to the government. This means that if an employer paid a 5 percent payroll tax on a worker's $200,000 salary, this amount ($10,000) would come out of the ...

Dean Baker is senior economist at The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of several books including, The United States Since 1980; Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot); and The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein). He appears frequently ...

You can relax: There is “zero doubt that Social Security will be there for Millennials,” says Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Even if nothing is done to shore up the system, Baker says people retiring in 30 to 40 years can count on about 10% more money, ...

By John Berlau And Dean Baker ... Just as baseball season approaches, President Donald Trump hits it out of the park with his appointment of economist Larry Kudlow to head the White House's .... Dean Baker is the founder and senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR).

Dean Baker is senior economist at The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of several books including, The United States Since 1980; Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot); and The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein). He appears frequently ...