Real-World Economics Review

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC speaks with economist Dean Baker on ways to jump-start the economy. Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks Like Us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tytnation Follow Us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks Support TYT for FREE by doing your Amazon shopping through this link (bookmark it!) http://www.amazon.com/?tag=theyoungturks-20 Support The Young Turks...

What's the future for America's workers? If Republicans succeed in taking over the Congress, many suggest cutting or eliminating minimum wage, slashing employee benefits, staving off union organizing. A recent New York Times headline reports "Across the U.S., Long Recovery Looks Like Recession" and the job figures this month reported losses in public sector jobs and meager increase in private sector employment. So what's a nation to do in the current political climate? We check in with...

From a September 22, 2010 summit hosted by the Responsible Budget Coalition

"Poverty is a one-day event, we get a report released and we're going to talk about poverty, but every day we hear what the stock market does," says Dean Baker, GRITtv economics correspondent. The problem with that kind of coverage, Baker notes, is that "many more people will experience poverty than will strike it rich in the stock market." Millions of Americans experience poverty not as a one-day affair, but as a constant, grinding force in their lives. Baker joins us via Skype to talk...

Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research notes that far more people will experience poverty than will ever strike it rich in the stock market. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Economist and blogger Dean Baker points out that the complaints of the top 2% of American income-earners that raising their taxes will hurt them are just comic. Distributed by Tubemogul.

This is the video of me proposing to Katie Brown (soon to be Baker :D) at Disneyland on August 20th, 2010 singing Apart Of Your World from The Little Mermaid

The favorite bogeyman of the Right, Social Security insolvency, is rearing its ugly head once again. Obama's deficit commission has been told that no solution is off the table, and Dean Baker notes it wouldn't be the first time that a Democratic administration went forward with plans that a Republican couldn't sell to the American people. Baker joins us via Skype to remind us once again that Social Security is solvent for many years, and that there are simple fixes for it if there are...

"...Obama's two lead appointees, his co-chairs, are both on record saying they want to cut Social Security. This should have people very very worried. That isn't a balanced commission." Economist Dean Baker interviewed on Democracy Now, 19 July 2010 For the rest of the interview, go to http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/7/19/part_ii_social_security_under_attack_cuts_proposed_higher_retirement_age_suggested More from Dean Baker:...

President Doug Holtz-Eakin and Dean Baker on Bloomberg July 16th talk with Peter Cook about the potential expiration of tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003.