Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Trumponomics: The Economics of Crazy
Trump’s economic agenda is a patchwork of blunders and vendettas, not a coherent strategy for the country.
Budget and National Debt
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Trump’s Supreme Court Tariff Brief: The President Is Crazy
Trump’s Supreme Court tariffs case rests on shaky economic claims and weak constitutional grounds.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Jerome Powell’s Good News on Interest Rates Is Not Necessarily Good News
Powell signaled a September rate cut, but workers may face lower real wages from Trump’s tariffs and limited economic relief.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Yes, Firing the Commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a Five Alarm Fire
As the economy weakens, Trump scapegoats data and fires the BLS chief to deflect from his own policy failures.
Article
Worry About the Economy, Not the Debt
The national debt is a preoccupation across the political spectrum. But we should be more concerned about wrongheaded economic policies that stifle growth and widen the gap between the haves and have nots.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
The Cost of Trump Golfing, DOGE Savings, and Talking Seriously About the Budget
The media’s lack of budget context fuels public misconceptions and makes minor cuts or wasteful spending seem far more significant than they are.
Article • Expose the Heist: Power and Policy in Unprecedented Times
The Republican Budget Bill: Take from the Poor, Give to the Rich
The bill shifts money upward: hurting the poor to reward the rich.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
CBO Overestimated Growth After Trump’s Last Tax Cut
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) slightly overestimated economic growth following Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, contradicting Republican claims that it unfairly downplayed the cuts’ benefits.
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Mad Money: The Markets are Angry at Donald Trump
Donald Trump promised a corporate-friendly administration. So why is Wall Street unhappy?.
Podcast
Mostly Economics – Episode 1
Dean Baker sits down with Stephanie Kelton to unpack the core ideas of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Kelton dispels common misconceptions about government spending, emphasizing that the real constraint on public programs is not money, but the availability of real resources like skilled workers and infrastructure.
