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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.
OpEd News Member for 811 week(s) and 3 day(s) 358 Articles, 1464 Quick Links, 3884 Comments, 41 Diaries, 3 Petitions, 33 Series, 7 Polls
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014Have Conditions in the Laboring Class improved from Henry George's Time to our Own? Labor conditions were indeed often appalling in the nineteenth century, but are they any better now? Let's start with a specific example and broaden our findings from there. A comparison of Labor's life from a hundred years ago to today. Have things improved...or been offshored? Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 300605 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 115561 views)
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014What is an American Corporation and does it Matter? Robert Reich opines on corporate tax evasion and inversion, but his proposals fall short of what is needed. Here are the solutions he missed. Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 300605 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 115561 views) 
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014The Flip Side of Debt Free Money Comparing Greenbacking - a system of Debt-free money - to Modern Monetary Theory of money. Debt-free money has been, and is still used, in the U.S. going back to Lincoln, as specified in a 1999 bill to create $360B in Interest-free money to fund the nation's highway infrastructure. This is something to consider as the Highway appropriations bill is held up by Republican Austerians in Congress. Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 300605 views), Banking (18 Articles, 51038 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 79115 views) (View All Series) 
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014Second NSA Whistleblower Confirms Snowden Allegations, and adds more (Video Interview) In a series of 3 reports by Reporter/Monetary Reformer Bill Still, the NSA's highest ranking official to date, Bill Binney, who went by the title of "technical director of the world for G.O. political and military analysis and reporting group" has confirmed everything Edward Snowden has said so far, and added that the NSA has 2,000 transcribers whose job it is just to take down whatever the electronic data gathers cannot. Series: Obama (3 Articles, 65120 views), NSA Whistleblowers (1 Articles, 4227 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187852 views) (View All Series) 
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Friday, June 27, 2014Who should profit from the Commons? What rightfully belongs to all of us and what rightfully is part of the Commons? Who should profit from the Commons and who should collect the economic rent? Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 300605 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 115561 views) 
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Thursday, May 8, 2014The continuing plight of Malaysian Flight MH370 - 2 month update On this, the 2-month anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysian Flight MH370, it's worth examining the landscape of findings, theories, and even, with the trail gone cold and unrewarding, some of the more outside-the-box theories. The ones that seemed least credible in the early days are seeming almost unavoidable now. Series: Malaysian Flight MH370 (2 Articles, 48953 views) 
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014Was Malaysian Flight MH370 Landed Safely in Afghanistan? The search for Malaysian flight MH370 has gone on for over a month. With false leads and slow starts, is it time to consider other alternatives? A new report supposedly from the Russian FSB suggests it might be. Series: Malaysian Flight MH370 (2 Articles, 48953 views) 
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014The Dumbing Down of America's Schools How can we educate our children when we don't even understand the problems ourselves? We will have to smarten up before we can expect them to do so. Herein, a smattering of failures, false leads, and cries for help...from those who are supposed to be educating. Series: Education (1 Articles, 3065 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187852 views) 
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Saturday, April 5, 2014Occupy's Next Step - a Wave of Action The Occupy Movement - never centralized to begin with - has adopted an even more decentralized strategy in an effort to avoid arrest and quashing, not always successfully. Having spawned hundreds of progressive movements, has Occupy developed enough power and a cohesive message enough to being a Worldwide Spring? Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187852 views) 
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Sunday, March 30, 2014Asking "How to pay for Social Security" is Asking the Wrong Question Although the economic literature, pundit bloviating, and ideological rants, love to ask "How to pay for Social Security," they are all asking the wrong question. The right question is "What is the Social Security Multiplier?" By understanding this, it becomes obvious that Social Security is one of the best investments government can make. Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 300605 views), Social Security (5 Articles, 10151 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 79115 views) (View All Series) 
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014The new Neo-Slavery Has Slavery gone away or just become more regulated and codified? Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 300605 views) 
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014So, Senator ____ what are YOU going to do about the NSA? What should YOUR Senator or Congressperson be doing to protect you against the NSA's warrant-less snooping? Here's what one of mine mine is doing, for better or worse. Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187852 views) 
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014A Georgist in Congress? A Georgist in the U.S. House? Why not? Long-time Georgist Alanna Hartzok is running again for the 9th district in Pennsylvania, this time on the Democratic ticket. Her campaign theme centers around the right to land for all, and fair collection of rent from those who use it. Series: Georgism (36 Articles, 115561 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187852 views) 
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Saturday, March 15, 2014Big Men - Film Review Exploring the oil curse in Ghana and Nigeria, using fairness and balance. Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 300605 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 115561 views) 
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Friday, March 14, 2014We May go to Nuclear War over WHAT?! We might go to war, possibly involving nuclear weapons, over a country most people couldn't find on a map. The Ukraine. You know you're in trouble when the country you're talking about begins with a preposition. Let's be Solomon here: split the baby. Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187852 views) 
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Friday, March 7, 2014What a Bernie Sanders Presidential Run would really require Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is making news by declaring his undeclared status as a possible presidential candidate in 2016. But there's more to winning an election than having the right candidate. 
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Thursday, March 6, 2014Petitioning the Government for a Redress of Grievances in the Modern Day Petitioning the Government for redress has a long and honorable history. It's also the first of our First Amendment Rights. Today, because of both security and accessibility reasons, you have to use the modern tools to do it. Series: Politics (56 Articles, 187852 views) 
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Thursday, February 13, 2014The Public vs. the Kochtopus Which is stronger? The People or the Kochtopus? An Activist's analysis of the Grayson campaign and negative ads by the Koch Brothers.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014Debating the Anarcho-Capitalists I don't normally reproduce comments and counter-arguments as articles, because they tend to be incoherent and hard to understand as standalone articles. But, in this case, this article in the anarcho-capitalist Daily Bell Blog, when they took on Ellen Brown and her run for Treasurer in California, turned into something that seemed article-worthy. I think it is instructive to see how the anarcho-capitalist mind-set works. Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 300605 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187852 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 79115 views) (View All Series) 
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Monday, February 10, 2014Fairness, Sustainability, & Growth are not contradictions! (Video) Presenting the case for Land Value Taxation to a mixed audience of community leaders, alumni of the Henry George School - which sponsored the event - and other interested students. This New York City-centric presentation presents real, practical, solutions to the issues of: - Sustainable Growth - Job Creation - Affordable Housing - Fairness in Taxation - Urban Sprawl - Monopoly and Speculation on Land Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 300605 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 115561 views) Page 9 of 18 First Last Back Next 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 View All |
