Dean Baker

Last week, I was briefly sent into a rage, throwing ketchup against the wall, when I saw that one of the Murdoch sons was buying up Vox Media. After

On Wednesday, the Washington Post ran a short piece with the headline, “Musk's SpaceX Discloses Massive Losses Ahead of Expected Record-Breaking IPO.” The first sentence told readers:

The collapse of both the ’90s tech bubble and the ’00s housing bubble had a devastating impact on the lives of tens of millions of workers. And with the

JD Vance's first claim to national attention as vice president was when he admitted to making up lies about pet-eating Haitian migrants. Vance justified the lie by saying that he was prepared to lie if that was needed to push Trump's anti-immigrant agenda. With his anti-fraud task force, Vance is continuing his practice of pushing racist lies.

I thought I’d take advantage of a lazy Memorial Day to re-up some of my standard complaints about the world and the quality of the information we receive.

I thought I’d take advantage of a lazy Memorial Day to re-up some of my standard complaints about the world and the quality of the information we receive. My big four ones today are: 1) The which way is up confusion; is the deficit or job-killing AI the big problem (can’t be both), 2) Big More

JD Vance’s first claim to national attention was when he admitted to making up lies about pet-eating Haitian migrants. Vance justified the lie by saying

When the Commerce Department released April data on consumption, the uptick in reported inflation got most of the attention. While that is big news, there

When the Commerce Department released April data on consumption, the uptick in reported inflation got most of the attention.

Yesterday, the Commerce Department released data on construction in April. It showed that factory construction is continuing to fall. In nominal terms, it dropped another 1.2 percent in April from its March level. Adjusting for inflation, the decline would be roughly 1.3 percent.