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The Financial Markets Agree With President Obama and Disagree with Paul Ryan

January 29, 2013   ·   0 Comments

By Dean Baker: It probably would have been useful to remind readers that Representative Paul Ryan’s claim that country is facing a fiscal crisis is sharply ...

David Brooks’ Trouble With Arithmetic Leads Him Astray Again

By Dean Baker: David Brooks would benefit hugely from a remedial course in grade school arithmetic. It might keep him from saying silly things in his ...

Krugman versus Stiglitz on Inequality and Economic Growth

By Dean Baker: Joe Stiglitz had an Opionator piece in the NYT arguing that inequality was bad for growth. Krugman responded...

The NYT is Upset that Wages in China Are Rising

By Dean Baker: Wow this is really getting incredible, yet another piece about how China is going to be suffering because it has a declining labor force. The ...

NYT Runs Propaganda Piece to Promote Europe-U.S. Trade Deal

By Dean Baker: The NYT ran a news article promoting a trade agreement between the United States and the European Union.

NYT Tells Readers the Cause of Japan’s Debt Problems

By Dean Baker: Those of you who didn’t know the cause of Japan’s debt problems, or perhaps that it even had debt problems, will be happy ...

Rewriting History: James Buchanan and the National Debt

By Dean Baker: It is customary not to say bad things about people when they die, but that is not a reason to construct an alternative reality, as the NYT appears to have done in its obituary for James Buchanan.

Does “Changes” Mean Something Different at the NYT Than in Normal English?

By Dean Baker: Democrats, or at least progressive Democrats, are not concerned about "changes" to Social Security...

Steve Rattner’s Defective Social Security Chart in NYT

By Dean Baker: Steve Rattner had a series of mostly useful charts in the NYT this morning describing the state of the economy.

New York Times Gets It Fundamentally Wrong on the Budget Impasse

By Dean Baker: The NYT doesn't seem to keep up to date with writings on the budget deficit even in its own paper.

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