Topic: Dean Baker
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How economy looks to the man who wrote the book
Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson blames crisis partly on 'fiendish' financial engineering on Wall Street.
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Financial crisis: the latest blow to free-market 'dogma'
Economic woes give plenty of ammunition to economists and lawmakers calling for new regulations and taxes.
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Should Congress help borrowers?
Lawmakers are finding it difficult to mount large-scale help for homeowners.
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Recession is a given. Can we avoid depression?
Economists wonder if the Bush administration is ideologically inclined to do what's needed to rescue economy.
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Job losses' ramifications far-reaching
Some expect Fed to cut rates by three-quarters of a point.
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Housing slump causes U.S. to weigh another big bailout
Federal rescue efforts could match the $124 billion cleanup of the savings-and-loan crisis in the 1980s.
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How falling home prices imperil the U.S. economy
Some argue government should do more to stop a negative feedback loop in the housing market.
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The economic stimulus package: How does spending help?
A reader wonders why government is attempting to spend its way out of an apparent recession.
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Footsteps of a recession grow louder
Economists can't officially call it a 'recession' until six months after it began, but this one's arrival seems noisier.
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