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Jobs From the Jobs Bill: NYT Gives the Full He Said She Said
Dean Baker Mar 05, 2010
Defense Spending: 4.7 Percent Is Closer to 5 Percent Than 4 Percent
Dean Baker Mar 05, 2010
The Fed Can Control Long-Term Interest Rates
Dean Baker Mar 05, 2010
David Brooks Is Worried About the Invasion of Martians
Dean Baker Mar 05, 2010
Good News From Ireland?
Dean Baker Mar 04, 2010
Secret Data Source Overlooked by the Media
Dean Baker Mar 04, 2010
What Percent of Stimulus Financed Wind Turbines Come From Overseas?
Dean Baker Mar 04, 2010
The Bush Tax Cuts Did Not Lower the Budget Deficits
Dean Baker Mar 03, 2010
The NYT Mind Reading: Tells Readers That Financial Markets Don't Like the UK's Budget Deficit
Dean Baker Mar 03, 2010
Post Gets the Whitewash Out for Bernanke
Dean Baker Mar 02, 2010
More Repression Over Copyrights: When "Creative" People Lack Creativity
Dean Baker Mar 01, 2010
E.J. Dionne Spins Fairy Tales About Political Parties
Dean Baker Mar 01, 2010
Robert Samuelson's Cheap Budget Tricks
Dean Baker Mar 01, 2010
More Demographic Crises at the Washington Post
Dean Baker Mar 01, 2010
Fighting Foreclosures Without Talking About the Bubble Is a Waste of Time
Dean Baker Mar 01, 2010

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