Numbersense Pros: Interview with Dean Baker

Today's Numbersense Pros features Dean Baker, an economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. His blog, Beat the Press, is my first stop for economics news. What attracts me is his data-first attitude. Every post on his site is about interpreting economic data--there is none of the data-free theorizing that is typical on other economics blogs. Baker adopts a cynical, almost satirical, tone, which is fun for readers but perhaps unamusing to the targets of his scorn. To give you a flavor, one of his recent posts is titled "Larry Summers Thought the Stock Bubble was...