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Financial Reform: It’s About Improving the Financial System, Not 2008

As the Democratic presidential race heats up, the debate on financial reform has taken a bizarre twist. Somehow the measure of a good…

4 min readFeb 10, 2016

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Breaking Up the Big Banks Is Easy

Steve Eisman, the hedge fund manager of Big Short fame, argued against breaking up the big banks in a NYT column today. His basic argument…

3 min readFeb 10, 2016

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Washington Post Takes Wild Swings at Bernie Sanders

It’s not surprising that the Washington Post (owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos) would be unhappy with a presidential candidate running on a…

3 min readJan 28, 2016

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Paul Krugman Revokes Credentials of Those Who Don’t Support Clinton

It looks like the race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is really heating up. Yesterday, Paul Krugman told readers:

1 min readJan 28, 2016

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The Washington Post Doesn’t Like the Postal Service

You probably knew that, but it told readers the story once again in an editorial in which the first paragraph told readers that if the…

2 min readJan 27, 2016

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Peterson Institute Study Shows TPP Will Lead to $357 Billion Increase in Annual Imports

A new study published by the Peterson Institute projects that the TPP will lead to an increase of $357 billion in annual imports when its…

5 min readJan 26, 2016

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Are the Irish Speeding? And Why It Means We Might be Throwing Trillions in the Toilet

I was struck to see a news article reporting the estimate from Ireland’s central bank that the economy grew by 6.6 percent in 2015. The…

3 min readJan 26, 2016

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Mike Bloomberg’s Billionaire Blackmail

According to a piece [sorry, no link] in Politico this morning, former New York City mayor and multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg is…

2 min readJan 25, 2016

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Lower Oil Prices Aren’t All Bad

World financial markets appear to be in a panic, partly over events in China, and partly over the plunge in oil prices. I will claim no…

2 min readJan 20, 2016

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Dean Baker

Dean Baker

I am an economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. I also run the blog Beat the Press (@beat_the_press)

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