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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.
OpEdNews Member for 925 week(s) and 2 day(s) 391 Articles, 1494 Quick Links, 3990 Comments, 41 Diaries, 3 Petitions, 40 Series, 7 Polls
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Friday, July 3, 2026Grok concurs: Time to seriously consider making Starship fat SpaceX's Starship is both higher and narrower than the proportions of the famous early rocket creator, Wernher Von Braun's Mars concept rocket (never built). Would a Starship with similar dimensions - albeit larger - overcome some of the vibrational and landing stability difficulties Starship has demonstrated? Would it be easier to land and less likely to vibrate stages to explosions? Would it be better? 
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Monday, June 15, 2026Is there a chance for peace between Lebanon and Israel? The pending ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran - far too fragile to be called a peace agreement - which excludes Israel and Hezbollah, as well as the nuclear issue which Trump has said is the main reason for the war, will not end the hostilities between Israel and the state-within-a-state Hezbollah bent on its total destruction. I decided to check with Grok AI just how much of an obstacle Lebanon is vs. Hezbollah. 
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Thursday, June 11, 202618 Years and 1 Million Views at OpEdNews: What Has Changed in the World, Opednews, and in my Writing Today I passed a million views on Opednews.com. A lot has changed in the world since those early days, deep in the mid Great Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. Series: Economic Reform (111 Articles, 378382 views), Freedom of the press (2 Articles, 2165 views), Obama (4 Articles, 67483 views) (View All Series) 
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Monday, June 1, 2026Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies Today, the New York Times published an opinion piece by Bernie Sanders to have the U.S. own 50% of the A.I. companies that are collecting our cultural products and knowledge, mostly without paying for them, and then to pay a citizen's dividend from our community IP. Series: Artificial Intelligence (13 Articles, 23091 views), Economic Reform (111 Articles, 378382 views), Stock Market (3 Articles, 6729 views) (View All Series) 
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Tuesday, May 26, 2026The existence of A.I. is dispositive to the existence of God Pope Leo XIV released a major encyclical recently called "Magnifica Humanitas," or "Magnificent Humanity." It deals with A.I. and contrasts it with the essential differences of humanity. Yet, like God creating people, people also created A.I. from the top-down, yet it isn't human. What does the Pope say about that? Series: Artificial Intelligence (13 Articles, 23091 views), Religion (2 Articles, 1927 views) 
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Thursday, May 21, 2026Claude is a neoliberal Queries of Anthropic's Claude AI and Xai's Grok produced surprising answers to the "fix everything" question. Many people would like to relegate policy-making to AI. What do you think? Series: Artificial Intelligence (13 Articles, 23091 views), Economic Reform (111 Articles, 378382 views), Elections (13 Articles, 35730 views) (View All Series) 
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026Why are young people finding it hard to find a job if the economy is booming? America's economy is supposedly booming, with relatively low unemployment and opportunities in dazzling new technology fields like AI. Yet, people express disgust and anger over the economy, reflected in polls here and abroad. What's going on? Why can't young people start meaningful careers or even find work at all? Series: Artificial Intelligence (13 Articles, 23091 views), Economic Reform (111 Articles, 378382 views), Education (2 Articles, 4308 views) (View All Series) 
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026Will the Middle East be Lost Tomorrow? Trump has set an 8pm, April 7, 2026 deadline for Iran to agree to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before he started the America/Israel vs. Iran war. Will he blink? If not, will there be a functional Middle Easet tomorrow? Series: Israel/Palestine (5 Articles, 7538 views), Middle East Articles (12 Articles, 24370 views), Oil Market (3 Articles, 3780 views) (View All Series) 
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Thursday, March 26, 2026Birthright Citizenship is coming before the Supreme Court. The ACLU could lose. The birthright citizenship case: Barbara v. Donald J. Trump is coming up for argument before the U.U Supreme Court on April 1rst. It may not go the way the ACLU or progressives would like. Series: Politics (67 Articles, 229350 views), Supreme Court and Other Courts (1 Articles, 802 views) 
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Thursday, March 19, 2026The State of the World, from the Small to the Large From the small technical details quickly comes the major issues of the day, which are coming fast and furious on their own as well. It's always tempting to say it's never been worse than today, but in this case, it really is true. Series: Artificial Intelligence (13 Articles, 23091 views), Israel/Palestine (5 Articles, 7538 views), Middle East Articles (12 Articles, 24370 views) (View All Series) 
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Monday, March 9, 2026The Failures of the Oil Futures Market The soaring prince of oil due to the America-Iran war is a good time to become critical of the oil futures market, which is what controls the price of oil, and its derivatives, like gasoline and jet fuel, etc. The futures market is where traders can make a killing, exaggerating supply and demand and causing havoc way beyond what's happening in the real world. Series: Economic Reform (111 Articles, 378382 views), Middle East Articles (12 Articles, 24370 views), Oil Market (3 Articles, 3780 views) (View All Series) 
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Sunday, March 1, 2026Can Islam be Reformed to Classic Liberal Values? As the U.S. and Israel go to war against Iran, the current center of anti-Western Islam, but far from Islam's only center in the world's 57 Muslim countries, what are the possibilities for serious reform of Islam along classical Western liberal values? Series: Religion (2 Articles, 1927 views), Middle East Articles (12 Articles, 24370 views), Artificial Intelligence (13 Articles, 23091 views) (View All Series) 
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026It's more than just the oil. Follow the Petrodollar. Unfortunately, the U.S. coup in Venezuela is much deeper, scarier and sicker than even "it's about the oil." The first layer of lies - that it was about drugs" was so weak that no one but the most credulous or maybe anti-drug supporters would accept it, even partially. But the deeper layers remain mostly undisclosed. Series: Politics (67 Articles, 229350 views), War (6 Articles, 8768 views) 
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Sunday, January 4, 2026Can You Make a Small Social Change? It's easy to get discouraged and give up on positive social change these days. Government seems unresponsive to the common man or woman, or worse, purposely harmful, even criminally, responsive instead. But what if you could make a change, a small change? And what if that small change went unacknowledged? Would you do it? How small is too small to bother with? Series: Economic Reform (111 Articles, 378382 views), Electric Vehicles (2 Articles, 9447 views), Politics (67 Articles, 229350 views) (View All Series) 
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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 (13 Articles, 23091 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 (111 Articles, 378382 views), Georgism (39 Articles, 139873 views), Politics (67 Articles, 229350 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, 66442 views), Economic Reform (111 Articles, 378382 views), Public Banking (38 Articles, 182519 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 (67 Articles, 229350 views), Artificial Intelligence (13 Articles, 23091 views), Stock Market (3 Articles, 6729 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 (2 Articles, 2448 views), Russia (2 Articles, 2157 views), Politics (67 Articles, 229350 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 (111 Articles, 378382 views), Government debt & budgets (3 Articles, 4361 views), Public Banking (38 Articles, 182519 views) (View All Series) Page 1 of 20 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
