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DEAN BAKER is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research which he co-founded in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare and European labor markets. He is the author of several books, including "Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better bargain for Working People," "The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive," "The United States Since 1980," "Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot)," and "The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer." His blog, Beat the Press, provides commentary on economic reporting.