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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection. His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of articles for Common Ground's national publication, GroundSwell, and has advocated for the Georgist Land Value Tax to public and political audiences. A complete list of his publications can be found here:
Scott has a dozen progressive petitions on Change.org which may be found here:
Scott was an I.T. Manager for a major New York university for over two decades where he earned a Certificate for Frontline Leadership.
He had a video game published in Compute! Magazine: Click Here Scott is a graduate and adjunct faculty of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York City.
Scott is a modern-day Renaissance Man with interests in economics, science and all future-forward topics.
Scott grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and was a member of the Psychology honor society PSI CHI. Today he is an avid bicyclist and ride co-leader in a prominent bike advocacy organization.
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Friday, December 19, 2025No, AI will not take all jobs AI is displacing people, especially tech workers. But there's a difference between producing that's "awesome" or "incredibly good" vs. something that adds value or advances business goals. It turns out that code generated by AI, for example, has bugs, and fixing those bugs is not as simple as telling AI to fix the; that can introduce other bugs, until some coder has to fix them...and they can't. Series: Artificial Intelligence (7 Articles, 11346 views) 
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025The 18 Year Land Cycle is Coming Right on Time and May be Worse than the Last One in 2008 The 18 year land cycle is starting right on time. 2026 will be the nadir of it, like 2008 was the last nadir, though the bottom may take a couple more years just like last time. This is so well known there are entire businesses devoted to profiting from it. Series: Economic Reform (105 Articles, 342616 views), Georgism (38 Articles, 131572 views), Politics (60 Articles, 208422 views) (View All Series) 
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Sunday, December 7, 2025Benefits of Having the Bank of North Dakota to local Banks and Credit Unions The advantages of having a public bank in North Dakota have been clear for consumers and the state for >100 years. Herein, a brief rundown of them to the bank and credit unions in the state. Series: Banking (20 Articles, 60947 views), Economic Reform (105 Articles, 342616 views), Public Banking (38 Articles, 173171 views) (View All Series) 
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Saturday, December 6, 2025AI Outperforms on the Stock Market: Grok AI up 47% in 2 Weeks. In a recent contest, an AI trader made 47% gains in just 2 weeks with a real $10,000 investment, among a total of $320,000 invested among AI competitors. But it may not be the "sure thing" it appears to be. Series: Politics (60 Articles, 208422 views), Artificial Intelligence (7 Articles, 11346 views), Stock Market (1 Articles, 1227 views) (View All Series) 
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Sunday, November 30, 2025Ceasefire Proposal for Russia-Ukraine War The Russia-Ukraine war will soon enter its third year, having begun in most non-combating country's thinking on 24 February 2022 when Russian military forces entered the country from Belarus, Russia and Crimea. Taking account of Russia's and Ukraine's histories, geography, past opportunities in similar circumstances, and practical realities, I posed a brief set of conditions and proposals to Grok AI. Here is the response. Series: Russia-Ukraine War (1 Articles, 653 views), Russia (1 Articles, 653 views), Politics (60 Articles, 208422 views) (View All Series) 
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025The Case for Selling off the New York City Pension Funds States and cities can balance their budgets, pay for things that their citizens want and need, and do it all without borrowing, raising taxes, or cutting elsewhere. They will have to move existing money around, but not from a Money Tree. There's another option... Series: Economic Reform (105 Articles, 342616 views), Government debt & budgets (2 Articles, 2348 views), Public Banking (38 Articles, 173171 views) (View All Series) 
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Friday, October 24, 2025Solving the Debt Crisis...even if it is not a crisis at all. People ask "What can President Trump do to resolve the Debt Crisis that has repeatedly paralyzed the government?" Let me count the ways. Series: Banking (20 Articles, 60947 views), Economic Reform (105 Articles, 342616 views), Sovereign Money (22 Articles, 91374 views) (View All Series) 
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Monday, October 6, 2025Trump ran up more debt than any other president; he could erase it all too Trump recently announced the production of a Trump commemorative coin. Leaving aside for the moment the 19th century restriction against using living people on commemorative coins - perhaps especially sitting presidents who call for themselves to be featured on them - there are serious positive implications to the U.S. producing a commemorative coin. Series: Economic Reform (105 Articles, 342616 views), Sovereign Money (22 Articles, 91374 views) 
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Friday, August 29, 2025The Global Collapse of 2026 Discover the profound insights of Fred Harrison, the visionary economic writer whose groundbreaking theories offer solutions to some of the worlds most urgent challenges. Renowned for his accurate predictions of the past two recessions, Harrison now shares his compelling forecast for the next economic collapse in 2026, which he anticipates will be far more significant. Series: Economic Reform (105 Articles, 342616 views), Government debt & budgets (2 Articles, 2348 views), Politics (60 Articles, 208422 views) (View All Series) 
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Friday, August 1, 2025"Abundance" Wants to Save Liberalism. It Can't. - A Review Video podcaster Shenandoah's review of Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Shenandoah writes "my review of Abundance, the new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson -- what it gets right, what it misses, and how its vision of "abundance liberalism" might actually land in the real world." 
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Friday, May 16, 2025The effect of switching to the Single Tax on Land in New York City Artificial Intelligence is quickly confirming what Georgists painstakingly have demonstrated for years: the tax portions of most or all municipal budgets could be entirely replaced by revenues generated by the Single Tax on Land (location). And in many if not all cases, even additional revenues from state and federal sources could be as well. Series: Artificial Intelligence (7 Articles, 11346 views), Georgism (38 Articles, 131572 views) 
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Sunday, April 13, 2025Palestine - A Film by Pierre Rohev The French filmmaker Pierre Rehov may be relatively unknown to Americans, but he has a long and deep history of making short and long films about the Middle East, particularly about Israel and the historical and current conflicts. Progressives are almost entirely unaware of the facts and history of the conflicts, the ties and direct descendance in some cases of Islamic policy, if not beliefs, from Nazi origins. Series: Israel/Palestine (3 Articles, 4345 views) 
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Monday, March 3, 2025The new Realities of the Russia-Ukraine War The much-discussed disastrous and unprecedented public argument between presidents Trump and Zelenskyy on February 28th, and the creeping loss of territory in Ukraine have made the need for a resolution urgent. 
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Sunday, February 16, 2025Is DOGE the end of America? How long can a dysfunctional government, slashed by irresponsible cuts from DOGE, continue? Is America about to fade from the scene? 
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Thursday, November 7, 2024What president-elect Trump and Elon Musk have in mind for America Trump's low information voters have no idea, or even the acumen, to understand what's coming from the tech billionaire who likes to "move fast and break things." As of this writing it looks like the Republicans will keep control of the House too, with any relative "moderate" Republicans already purged in favor of MAGA Republicans who will do whatever Trump tells them to do. 
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Thursday, September 5, 2024Why does the economy do better under Democrats? It's not just policy, it's timing of the vote too. 
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024What is a Woman (at the Olympics)? Olympic boxing winner Imane Khelif, in its welterweight female boxing matches is suing Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling, and other, as yet unnamed, celebrities, none of whom appear to have any scientific qualifications, over statements related to sex classification of her with regards to the Olympic contests. The outcome may have ramifications well beyond sport. 
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Thursday, July 25, 2024Deorbiting the ISS, a symptom of the lack of vision & ambition everywhere SpaceX was just awarded the mission to crash the ISS into the Pacific Ocean in 2030. Other options were considered by NASA, but vision & will were not an option. 
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Monday, July 22, 2024Why Social Security can't be Privatized. A lot of people ask why Social Security can't just be privatized. I answered this one from Quora but it should be known and repeated in many other places, especially since social security is again threatened with "running out of money" - a lie.
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024On AI vs. Human Consciousness What is human consciousness? Can it ever be achieved by AI? What are the essential differences between humans and AI robots? A provocative question and equally provocative answer. |
