Real-World Economics Review

Dean Baker kicks off the 2010 spring series "Policy Matters" with an overview of the current economic crisis. Policy Matters is a joint effort of the University of Iowas Public Policy Center and History Department that offers an unprecedented series of public forums featuring nationally recognized experts to share their perspectives on pressing domestic policy issues. http://ppc.uiowa.edu/policymatters

Dean Baker of the Center for Economic Policy Research reminds us that we need to keep pressuring Obama and our lawmakers to enact health care reform. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org

Dean Baker says that concern over deficits while people still need jobs is heading in the wrong direction. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org

Dean Baker explains that the best way to ensure the economic crisis doesn't happen again is firing the economists who missed out on predicting and fixing it the first time around. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org

Dean Baker explains that for economists to predict the economic crisis, they would've had to go against all the incentives they had for staying quiet. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org

Dean Baker explains in basic terms why the economy collapsed. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org

Professor Timothy Baker discusses Dean Stebbins

CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker discussed and signed copies of his new book, "False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy," at Busboys & Poets. False Profits recounts the causes of the economic meltdown, dissects the governments inadequate responses to it, and offers a thoughtful progressive program for rebuilding the economy and reforming the financial system.

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Link to full segment: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/30/christmas_presents_for_bankers Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 30, 2009 As 2009 comes to a close, we take a look at the state of the U.S. economy with economist dean Baker and the Reverend Jesse Jackson. After throwing the economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression and bringing the whole sector to the edge of collapse, the financial industry has used its political power to succor itself back to life, Baker writes....