Real-World Economics Review

What is happening in Toronto? What is happening to financial reform? And what is going to happen to the many people who won't get their unemployment benefits extended? Dean Baker, co-director for the Center on Economic Policy Research, clears some of the questions and claims that economic changes are a mixed bag. Perhaps these changes brought positive things such as greater transparency, but this hardly negates rampant inequality or a problematic lack of change in how Wall Street operates...

Joining Laura Flanders on The Nation on Grit TV, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center on Economic Policy Research, says that though Obama's financial reforms may ultimately result in greater transparency in the way banks and big corporations do business, the changes will do little to combat rampant economic inequality and unemployment. What is sorely needed, Baker argues, is a fundamental change in the way Wall Street operates. Dean Baker is part of a Nation forum on inequality to be...

CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker discussing and signing copies of his latest book, Taking Economics Seriously, at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. on June 23, 2010.

Dean Baker discusses his book, "Taking Economics Seriously," and focuses on Health Care systems.

Among the crowded ranks of economists and market watchers, Dean Baker stands out. Baker presciently called the housing bubble when he published The Run-up in Home Prices: Is It Real or Is It Another Bubble? in 2002. So does our guest Baker see the so-called housing recovery now? "No. I mean I think people that are saying that just aren't paying attention to what's in front of their eyes," says Baker, an American economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research....

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The big economic news this morning was that 16 countries that use the euro and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to create a nearly $1 trillion rescue fund to support the euro and keep the problems in Greece from spreading. Here in the U.S., the Dow might be climbing, but people are still struggling to find employment and recovery, Dean Baker reminds us, is still a long way off. Meanwhile, the people who created the crisis are trying to use the deficits they caused to force cuts...

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Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, speaks at an April 15, 2010 news conference in Washington, D.C. in support of the Financial Speculation Tax. A broad coalition of economic experts, labor leaders, and consumer, development and global health advocates are calling on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Congress and President Barack Obama to swiftly pass and enact a tax on financial speculation. The tax is a very small levy on financial short-term...

http://ourfuture.org discusses CNN's decision to air four hours of programming based on conservative deficit propaganda from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which is subjected to a forceful take-down by Campaign for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey and Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. CNN scheduled "I.O.USA: America's Money Crisis" to air during the weekend of April 10 and 11. "What we're seeing here is a real campaign to get the country to focus on...