Topic: Dean Baker

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Economists are predicting a rise in U.S. unemployment and a "structural" shift in the job market, resulting in longer periods looking for work.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, not without some flack, has hired a former Bear Stearns risk assessor to help with bank supervision.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. government bailout of American financial institutions may not cure all that ills the national economy, experts say.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Voices of skepticism are growing louder over a U.S. Treasury plan to buy $700 billion worth of risky securities from financial firms, various sources said.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The $700 billion bailout plan being debated in Washington will not fix the housing crisis that caused the problem, various analysts said Monday.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Conservatives attacked Republican U.S. President George Bush for approving the Federal Reserve's $85 billion takeover of American International Group Inc.

WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- Both major U.S. presidential candidates are proposing dramatic changes to Social Security, but they diverge on how to keep the program solvent, observers said.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- As ExxonMobil prepares to celebrate what could be a record profit, company officials and stockholders might want to join in a moment of silence for the more than 1 million war dead in Iraq.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Price cuts, financial deals and other incentives are being used by builders to counter the soft housing market and move newly built but unsold homes.

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A University of California study says the risk of high blood pressure increases with longer working hours. The study done at the UC-Irvine campus was based on a telephone survey of more than 24,000 California workers and analyzed by a team led by Drs. Hai