Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, an independent, left-of-center, economic research organization based in Washington, DC. He is the author of Taking Economics Seriously, The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Rich, Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive and False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy.
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