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Dean Baker (CEPR) speaks at a presentation by the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) which critiques IMF performance before the economic crisis. See the full event video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raZ9VyfPgco

Baker spotted the housing bubble in '02, years before Schiff: http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/housing_2002_08.pdf

Dean Baker reminds Republicans (and President Obama) that it wasn't government spending that caused the current economic crisis--but it will probably take government spending to get out of it. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.

Dean Baker explains that cutting government spending is exactly the wrong way to go about fixing the economy right now--and that people advocating budget cuts are advocating throwing people out of work. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.

Progressive Economics Dean Baker is an economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Dean Baker is an economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Today, in Conversations with Great Minds Thom Hartmann talks with Dean Baker, economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. In the Big Picture Rumble Jamie Weinstein, Erikka Knuti and Seton Motley join Thom to discuss Egypt, Obama and healthcare reform.

Baker appeared on MSNBC's Countdown, guest-hosted by Chris Hayes. Visit: http://firedoglake.com

This is the only footage I have of my little brother Ronnie. Rest in peace little bro, one day we gonna catch up and do some surfing old school style.

"It's the wrong answer to not a problem," says Dean Baker of the report out last week from the leaders of Obama's deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. The report, which recommends massive cuts across the budget, most significantly to Social Security and health care programs, has been roundly criticized by progressives for its targeting, but Dean notes that the biggest problem with it is that without the health care crisis we still have, we wouldn't have deficits in the first...