Dean Baker
@deanbaker13.bsky.social
Economist at the Center for Economic Research. Father to two dogs.
do a good deed for Thanksgiving paydayreport.com/help-a-broke...
Help a Broke Labor Reporter Take Off Thanksgiving
I’d love to take some time off for the holidays, but these past few weeks, Payday Report has been in a fundraising drought.
paydayreport.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
do a good deed for Thanksgiving paydayreport.com/help-a-broke...
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MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
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MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
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At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the majority of newsroom workers chose to cross the picket line.
The strike's ending raises fundamental questions about how the Pittsburgh NewsGuild rebuilds trust and regains majority status at Pittsburgh's marquee newspaper.
paydayreport.com/ending-three...
The strike's ending raises fundamental questions about how the Pittsburgh NewsGuild rebuilds trust and regains majority status at Pittsburgh's marquee newspaper.
paydayreport.com/ending-three...
Ending Three-Year Strike, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Union Seeks to Rebuild Trust & Unity with Majority Scab Newspaper
The strike's ending raises fundamental questions about how the Pittsburgh NewsGuild rebuilds trust and regains majority status at Pittsburgh's marquee newspaper.
paydayreport.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the majority of newsroom workers chose to cross the picket line.
The strike's ending raises fundamental questions about how the Pittsburgh NewsGuild rebuilds trust and regains majority status at Pittsburgh's marquee newspaper.
paydayreport.com/ending-three...
The strike's ending raises fundamental questions about how the Pittsburgh NewsGuild rebuilds trust and regains majority status at Pittsburgh's marquee newspaper.
paydayreport.com/ending-three...
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no reason not to impeach him right now. These are the worst people.
CDC’s new top deputy had ordered his state health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations amid a flu surge www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
no reason not to impeach him right now. These are the worst people.
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Tired: Trumponomics
Wired: Look-A-Squirrel!-onomics
Wired: Look-A-Squirrel!-onomics
The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Tired: Trumponomics
Wired: Look-A-Squirrel!-onomics
Wired: Look-A-Squirrel!-onomics
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Sentient beings.
Whale Who Protected The Defenseless
YouTube video by AMERICAN NEWS
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Sentient beings.
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3/3 Meanwhile, Americans are facing rising unemployment, slowing wage growth, and less leverage to leave their jobs. Trump’s tariff reversal won’t solve any of these issues.
@deanbaker13.bsky.social explains why workers are worse off under Trump’s economy:
@deanbaker13.bsky.social explains why workers are worse off under Trump’s economy:
The Cult of Affordability and the Labor Market
Politicians have seized "affordability," but does it overlook some more fundamental truths about the state of the labor market?
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
3/3 Meanwhile, Americans are facing rising unemployment, slowing wage growth, and less leverage to leave their jobs. Trump’s tariff reversal won’t solve any of these issues.
@deanbaker13.bsky.social explains why workers are worse off under Trump’s economy:
@deanbaker13.bsky.social explains why workers are worse off under Trump’s economy:
Donald Trump's love affair with tariffs keeps getting crazier cepr.net/publications...
Tariffs and Trump Crazy: It Keeps Getting Worse
Trump’s tariffs are taxes on US consumers, not foreign countries, and his recent claims about tariffs reveal major misunderstandings of basic economics.
cepr.net
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Donald Trump's love affair with tariffs keeps getting crazier cepr.net/publications...
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Saying Trump is clueless is redundant, but when it comes to tariffs, if really needs to be said deanbaker22.substack.com/p/tariffs-an...
Tariffs and Trump Crazy: It Keeps Getting Worse
The old man is clueless about his signature policy
deanbaker22.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Saying Trump is clueless is redundant, but when it comes to tariffs, if really needs to be said deanbaker22.substack.com/p/tariffs-an...
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Joe Stiglitz is a great economist and a moral giant.
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Joe Stiglitz is a great economist and a moral giant.
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Last really good work that Matt Taibbi did was sit in court rooms after the 2008 crash and write about the absolute illegality and preference to banks exhibited by local judges
Cramdown would have been good right-to-rent would have been better www.files.ethz.ch/isn/103834/r... It was supposedly dropped from consideration due to Larry Summers
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Last really good work that Matt Taibbi did was sit in court rooms after the 2008 crash and write about the absolute illegality and preference to banks exhibited by local judges
wholesale food prices are up 4.0% over the last year www.bls.gov/news.release...
Table 1. Producer price index percent changes and weights for Final Demand - Intermediate Demand groupings, seasonally adjusted
- 2025 M09 Results
www.bls.gov
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
wholesale food prices are up 4.0% over the last year www.bls.gov/news.release...
It is important to realize the extent to which inequality is due to the ways in which we structure the rules on things like bankruptcy and intellectual property. I talk about this with Joe Stiglitz on my podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5c...
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It is important to realize the extent to which inequality is due to the ways in which we structure the rules on things like bankruptcy and intellectual property. I talk about this with Joe Stiglitz on my podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5c...
here's the correct link for Stiglitz interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5c...
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
here's the correct link for Stiglitz interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5c...
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My interview with Joe Stiglitz in which we talk about, among other things, how bankruptcy and intellectual property laws were structured to make billionaires richer cepr.net/publications...
The Economy After the September Jobs Report
The September jobs report shows weak job growth, higher unemployment, and a cooling labor market driven mostly by healthcare gains.
cepr.net
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My interview with Joe Stiglitz in which we talk about, among other things, how bankruptcy and intellectual property laws were structured to make billionaires richer cepr.net/publications...
Cramdown would have been good right-to-rent would have been better www.files.ethz.ch/isn/103834/r... It was supposedly dropped from consideration due to Larry Summers
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Cramdown would have been good right-to-rent would have been better www.files.ethz.ch/isn/103834/r... It was supposedly dropped from consideration due to Larry Summers
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I would add to @deanbaker13.bsky.social’s critique that the post-2008 failure to normalize the treatment of mortgages under US bankruptcy law by allowing cramdown (that is available for every other collateralized loan) should be the focus of reform to support healthy housing markets.
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I would add to @deanbaker13.bsky.social’s critique that the post-2008 failure to normalize the treatment of mortgages under US bankruptcy law by allowing cramdown (that is available for every other collateralized loan) should be the focus of reform to support healthy housing markets.
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
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If you need another example of the difference between legacy media and independent pro-democracy media, compare The Washington Post and Democracy Docket's coverage of the same story. ("controversial video"--WTF.)
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November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
If you need another example of the difference between legacy media and independent pro-democracy media, compare The Washington Post and Democracy Docket's coverage of the same story. ("controversial video"--WTF.)
Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Saying Trump is clueless is redundant, but when it comes to tariffs, if really needs to be said deanbaker22.substack.com/p/tariffs-an...
Tariffs and Trump Crazy: It Keeps Getting Worse
The old man is clueless about his signature policy
deanbaker22.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Saying Trump is clueless is redundant, but when it comes to tariffs, if really needs to be said deanbaker22.substack.com/p/tariffs-an...
Maybe Trump should have found a competent person to be Secretary of Defense
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Maybe Trump should have found a competent person to be Secretary of Defense
very bad news
@deanbaker13.bsky.social has written some good stuff on how damaging it is to have such a restriction on doctors
This won't help
This won't help
Just wait until the next pandemic 🤣
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
very bad news
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Just wait until the next pandemic 🤣
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country’s doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
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‘Nobody wants to come’: What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians? — NPR
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country’s doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
apple.news
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Just wait until the next pandemic 🤣
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The Gaza protests not only “provoked intense political conflict.” Liberal and Dem leaders are still calling them antisemites for caring about liberal principles like human rights and international law…and they expect these same kids to come defend liberal democracy!
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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