Author: Dean Baker

Talk about tariffs and free trade isn’t a nationalist issue. It’s a class issue. Dean Baker reports.

If America truly wants to reverse soaring income inequality, curbing CEO pay has to be on the agenda. Dean Baker explains.

On getting your government to work for you instead of for lobbyists and politicos. Dean Baker writes.

CEOs make 200-500 times as much as their workers. Why? Hint: it ain’t because they’re so valuable. Dean Baker reports.

Dean Baker takes another tack on tariffs: What if the medical profession was “free trade”?

Dean Baker surveys the latest legal attack on unions and workers’ rights.

Whichever mayor wins the Amazon lottery, the city will lose. Dean Baker writes.

Contrary to what the President might say, tax cuts for corporations have not led to investment in America, and low taxes have never led to growth. So why continue the ruse? Dean Baker writes.

Dean Baker talks about bubbles, baseless valuations, and the stock market version of vaporware.

Dean Baker exposes the myth of “entitlements” and “grandparents stealing from grandchildren” for what it is: class warfare.