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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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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
The AI bust scenario that no one is talking about SHARE 
"I've actually already written a number of posts about the possibility of an AI bubble and bust. Back in August, I wondered
if the financing of data centers with private credit could cause a
financial crisis if there was a bust. I followed that up with a post about profitability, and suggested that the AI industry might be a lot more competitive than people expect. In October, I wrote about how AI is propping up the U.S. economy.
But
I feel like I need to write another post, because almost all of the
discussion I see about an AI bubble seems to leave out one crucial
scenario.
Even if AI works, and even if it gets adopted very fast, it might not make profit." - Noah Smith
Series: Artificial Intelligence (1 Articles, 10323 views), Economic Reform (7 Articles, 341012 views) 
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Paul Krugman in Conversation about AI with Paul Kedrosky SHARE
"As I say at the beginning of this interview, its annoying for economic
analysts that two huge things are happening at the same time: a radical
change in U.S. trade policy and a giant AI boom. Worse, while I think I
know something about tariffs, the more I think about AI the less I
believe I understand. So I talked to Paul Kedrosky, investor, tech
expert and research fellow at MIT, for some enlightenment. Lots in here
that I found startling.
So, about this AI thing ...we also have this AI explosion where I feel completely at sea. I
don't quite understand any of it. Ive been reading and watching
interviews with Paul Kedrosky,
who is an investor, analyst, and currently research fellow at MIT, he
certainly knows more about it than I do, and I wanted to just have a
conversation where I try to understand what the heck is going on,
insofar as anybody can."
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Josh Shapiro Knows What the Democrats Need SHARE
Can a centrist governor from Pennsylvania, and a Jew, unite the country to defeat the heir to Trump in 2028 (and no, I don't believe Trump will run again, illegally, or even will want to by then)? Josh Shapiro may be the best chance the Democrats have. A smoothly running swing state and a governor with 60% approval rating, more than 2:1 over disapproval, could prove a formidable competitor in the primaries too.
Monday, October 6, 2025
Study identifies key agricultural practices that threaten soil health and global food supply SHARE
The global food system faces growing risks as modern farming
practices undermine the resilience of the world's soils, according to
new research.
Soil resilience is the ability of
soils to withstand, adapt to, and recover from disturbances, ranging
from everyday management practices to more severe shocks such as extreme
weather events. A major review of agricultural practices has concluded
that while intensive techniques such as plowing, fertilizer use and
irrigation boost crop yields in the short term, their regular
longer-term use can degrade soils, leaving them less able to withstand
shocks such as drought, flooding or geopolitical disruption.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Larry Ellison Buys into Big Media with CBS and TikTok USA SHARE
"Larry Ellison is the second richest person in the world. The Oracle co-founder net worth is about $380 billion following a 36% surge in Oracle shares. He hasmade big moves into big media. Big Media is relevant for political
influence but also for data and reach that is useful for winning in AI."
People used to complain that network TV monopolized the "airwaves" but we are so far beyond that from mergers now that decebillionaire families, or even individuals, essentially control everything we see or hear from MainStream Media (MSM). Such wealthy people have no incentive to alter the basic status quo and alternate media is too fragmented and tiny to matter.
Friday, September 19, 2025
Without free speech, America is nothing SHARE
We must stand up for the most fundamental right of all.
If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is being used to squelch criticism of the very people he was supporting, in part because of their previous support for free speech, now reversed and threatened by those same people. The story needs to be told.
Monday, September 15, 2025
Trump is raising unemployment: He wants a new scorekeeper SHARE
From Dean Baker When a football team keeps losing, the cry usually goes out for a new coach, or at least a new quarterback. Alternatively, there is the Trump route: Get a new scorekeeper. That is apparently the story, with Trump reportedly looking to overhaul the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the statistical agency thattells us how many jobs we create each month. It also tells us the unemployment rate and the inflation rate.
Monday, June 9, 2025
Trump Wants Big Tech to Own the Dollar SHARE
The IMF-World Bank Spring meetings are
usually placid affairs that participating central bankers wish to
forget soon after they are over. Not this Spring. This April the feeling
several central bankers brought back home with them was not the usual
relief but something far more visceral: dread, terror even. The reason?
The spectre of the Genius Act—the U.S. stablecoin bill barrelling toward
law in 2025, hot on the heels of Donald Trump’s January 23 executive
order heralding a strategic cryptocurrency reserve.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
More Trouble for CBS News as Trump's Lawyer Threatens To Sue '60 Minutes' Again Over Report That Called Trump 'a Mob Bos SHARE
"President Trump's lawyer, Ed Paltzik, says the story contains "smears" and "may necessitate additional corrective legal action."
For public figures to win defamation suits, they would have to show
that the defendants went too far in their comments and demonstrated
“actual malice.â€
That has not stopped Mr. Trump from bringing defamation lawsuits in
Florida that legal observers in New York and Washington argued were
meritless. (However,) In December, after a Florida judge ruled multiple times in
Mr. Trump’s favor, ABC News agreed to pay him $16 million after host
George Stephanopoulos falsely said the president had been found liable
for rape."
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Hamas-run health ministry quietly removes thousands from Gaza death toll, researchers find SHARE
Some 3,400 names were removed from the most recent death reports from the Strip, raising concerns of inflated figures by Hamas. The story is repeated, almost verbatim, in multiple news outlets, though a revised figure after all the deductions has not been shown, and the previous figure of 50,000 is repeated instead. The total includes natural deaths too and figures including women & children are grossly inflated. Hamas has child soldiers, who are counted as "children" by Hamas.
Monday, March 31, 2025
The Case Against European Rearmament SHARE
If we truly want to strengthen Europe,
the first step is not to rearm. It is to forge the democratic union
without which stagnation will continue to erode Europe’s capacities,
rendering it unable to rebuild what is left of Ukraine once Vladimir
Putin is finished with it.
ATHENS – Inducting
Ukraine into NATO after forcing Russia back behind its pre-2014 borders
has been the only strategic aim EU leaders have allowed themselves to
contemplate since Russia’s invasion three years ago. Alas, well before
US President Donald Trump’s re-election, this aim slipped into the realm
of infeasibility. The writing had been on the wall for a while.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
EPA Deregulation Would Be a 'Tragedy' for Health, Experts Say SHARE
Physicians and scientists say rollbacks on pollution, transportation and greenhouse gas emissions regulations are a serious risk to public health.
At a virtual panel hosted by the American Lung Association on Wednesday,
physicians and health experts highlighted the human health implications
of the EPA’s efforts to roll back regulations on particulate matter air pollution, greenhouse gases, transportation emissions and more.
In the meantime, if the EPA fails to enforce existing laws and
regulations, advocates are also prepared to take the agency to court.
Monday, February 24, 2025
Donald Trump's economic masterplan SHARE
Faced with President Trump’s economic moves, his centrist critics oscillate between desperation and a touching faith that his tariff frenzy will fizzle out. They assume that Trump will huff and puff until reality exposes the emptiness of his economic rationale. They have not been paying attention: Trump’s tariff fixation is part of a global economic plan that is solid — albeit inherently risky.
Monday, February 24, 2025
The Argentinian President's crypto scam exploited the dangerous illusion of apolitical money SHARE
On Friday 14th February, President Milei of Argentina tweeted about the $LIBRA coin, encouraging his followers to buy it on the grounds that it would “help fund small businesses and start-upsâ€Â. As if that weren’t enough, he shared a link for people to buy it online. Naturally, within a few hours, $LIBRA’s price shot up. Many more people, trying to escape the poverty that Millei’s policies have subjected them to, rushed in to buy. Alas, soon after the price of $LIBRA crashed and they lost their money.
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Monday, February 17, 2025
The incredible cost of Bitcoin SHARE
"Source AI is not what it is supposed to be. Inspired by my son, who attends higher education, I asked chat-GPT to write an article about the energy use of bitcoin in the style of my blog post series ´The real costs of making money´. Look here. Guess what: chat-GPT did not emulate my style…"
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Friday, January 24, 2025
Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. SHARE
Greg Palast, not only the best election-investigating reporter, but almost the only one after an election, has done a very deep dive into modern Jim Crow vote suppression techniques used by the Republican party (Palast is non-partisan, but only one party does this).
The results are in: Trump would have lost if millions of votes and voters were properly counted in the swing states of: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania & Georgia.
The details are in. The studies are made by reputable authorities - unlike the unqualified election deniers on the Republican side. Organizations from the ACLU to the NAACP agree. But will the MSM or courts listen? The false election denialism of the Trump forces accomplished one thing: they made it almost impossible for true election denial to be properly recognized.
Series: Elections (1 Articles, 33196 views) 
Monday, January 20, 2025
Trump's 'Tech-Bro' Scheme to Boost Crypto, Sink the Dollar, End Democracy and Get Fantastically Rich SHARE
A few short years ago, Donald Trump was no fan of crypto. He said it wasn’t real money. Today, he brags he’s the crypto president. What changed?
Simply put, Trump has figured out an angle to use cryptocurrency to enrich himself beyond the wealth of the Ottoman Pashas.
The big payoff will come if Trump and his coterie of tech
billionaires and oligarchs are able to pull off an unprecedented assault
on the dollar. The intent would be to replace the government-controlled
world monetary system with a privatized system based on cryptocurrency.
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Thursday, July 25, 2024
Addressing Congress, Netanyahu lays out vision for postwar Gaza, anti-Iran alliance SHARE
Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a speech before Congress, after being invited by the Republican leader Mike Johnson. Many progressives find little to like about Israel but compared to the Hamas death cult they are far more clearly aligned with progressive and Western values. Bottom Line: Netanyahu said the war in Gaza would end tomorrow if Hamas “surrenders, disarms and returns all the hostages.” Hamas chooses not to do that since every Palestinian death is a martyr PR victory for Hamas and a victory for their Iranian backers. Netanyahu calls progressives supporting Hamas "useful idiots." He is right.
Friday, July 19, 2024
"My Leftist Worldview Got Disproved, Hamas DOES Represent Palestinians": Dr Einat Wilf SHARE
(Video) Dr. Einat Wilf talks to Ollie about how the hypothesis that land/gestures for peace could result in a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Arabs has been empirically disproved. Together they discuss what needs to be done to tackle the roots of the Israeli-Arab conflict, the need to keep UNRWA defunded, as well as the antisemitism and ignorance around the world.
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Thursday, July 18, 2024
Human Rights Watch details hundreds of war crimes SHARE
Organization with long history of criticizing
Israel says number of crimes impossible to determine, including
gender-based violence; Israeli watchdog group slams ‘token’ report.
Hamas led armed Palestinian groups in committing hundreds of highly
coordinated war crimes, including attacks on civilians and gender-based
violence, during the October 7 onslaught on Israel that set off the war
in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said in a comprehensive report published
Wednesday.
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