Dean Baker

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  • People walk past the JPMorgan Chase Building on Park Avenue May 15, 2012 in New York.Commentary

    What Trump’s Idea to Break Up Big Banks Could Mean for Average Americans

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  • Views Of The Googleplex Campus As Google Inc. Brings Ultra-Fast Internet Access To San FranciscoCommentary

    Silicon Valley Needs To Quit Whining About H1-B Visas

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  • Jobless Claims In U.S. Rose More Than Forecast Last WeekCommentary

    What the Fed’s Next Move Means For Your Paycheck

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  • Democratic presidential candidates U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton debate during the first official Democratic candidates debate of the 2016 presidential campaign in Las VegasCommentary

    Why the Democratic presidential debate is just like the GOP’s

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  • APTOPIX Wall StreetCommentary

    Biggest lesson from financial crisis: Wall Street gets what it wants

    By Dean Baker and Bethany Cianciolo
  • Frank talks with a group including Bachus during a recess from a committee conference on Wall Street reform on Capitol HillCommentary

    Five years later, Dodd-Frank naysayers are still wrong

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    The biggest threat to the U.S. budget: A Fed rate hike?

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    How guaranteed paid sick days could boost U.S. job growth

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  • U.S. CapitolCommentary

    What Congress isn’t seeing when the government spends

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  • For many, planning for retirement isn’t so certain.Commentary

    Close to retirement? Why America’s recovery is working against you

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  • Finance

    The tax hike that almost nobody noticed

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  • Finance

    Did Yellen slay the ‘tech bubble’ dragon?

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  • Finance

    A cure for bloated CEO pay

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  • Timothy GeithnerFinance

    Did Geithner save America from a Second Great Depression?

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  • The one reason why bond prices won’t collapse

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