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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:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/

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:

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He is also New York State Coordinator and Senior Advisor for the Public Banking Institute

Click Here, which seeks to promote Public Banking. The PBI is chaired by another OEN blogger, Ellen Brown. Scott has appeared on TV/Radio and in in-person Presentations to explain the principles of Georgism, Greenbacking, and State Banking. These may also be found on his personal blog: http://newthinking.blogspot.com/

Scott has a dozen progressive petitions on Change.org which may be found here:
http://chn.ge/10nUAmJ

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.
He has been called an "adept syncretist" by Kirkus Discoveries for his novel, NeitherWorld - a two-volume opus blending Native American myth, archaeological detail, government conspiracy, with a sci-fi flair http://amzn.to/10nUoDV

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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The Elephant in the Room is the hedge fund, From ImagesAttr
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 (3 comments) SHARE More Sharing Pension Fund Giant Calpers divests itself of Hedge Funds, citing underperformance and opacity The news was greeted with shock by some, while others wondered what took so long. In perhaps the first of many shoes to drop on the hedge fund industry, the largest U.S. pension fund, CalPERS (California Public Retirement System) announced it will sell all of its hedge fund investments within 12 months. Media stories on this announcement were quick to cite lagging performance of these funds over the past year.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 312602 views), Public Banking (36 Articles, 160795 views)
War: Who is it Good For?, From ImagesAttr
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 (23 comments) SHARE More Sharing War: Is Instability the Goal? I've come to the difficult but unavoidable conclusion, based on the evidence of repeated regime change "failures" - as they seem to any sane person - that what Obama and the neo-cons really want is to break the Middle East.
Series: War (1 Articles, 2327 views)
China Economic Growth vs. the U.S. to 2030, From ImagesAttr
Saturday, September 27, 2014 (4 comments) SHARE More Sharing China shifts taxes to Land China has made a major shift to taxation on Land, especially in those areas with the most speculative fever, their largest cities. This will not only enhance revenue, it will provide the final link in the well-managed Chinese economy, and may spell the end of Western economic dominance, even sooner than currently forecast.
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 53923 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 312602 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 120405 views) (View All Series)
244ag - Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER; 9M-MRD@ZRH;06.07.2003, From ImagesAttr
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 (11 comments) SHARE More Sharing Conservative Reporter Bill Still says it was NOT the Russians who shot down MH17, it was the Ukrainians In this detailed video, Monetary Reformer, one-time Libertarian Presidential candidate, and heavily pro-American (as he explains in the first minute) Bill Still admits he was "probably wrong" about his initial assessment that it was the Russians who shot down MH17 over the Ukraine. He shows photographic evidence of 30MM cannon fire, which could only have come from an attack plane like the kind the Ukraine is using.
Fish rots from the head, From ImagesAttr
Thursday, September 4, 2014 (12 comments) SHARE More Sharing A Fish Rots from the Head The official numbers for inflation present a case for low inflation. Wage and income inflation is disinflationary, and since the turn of the century even deflationary. The expansionary monetary policy of the Fed is based on the perception that the policy is justified by low employment levels and the above measurements of inflation. But what if the Fed is looking at the wrong metrics?
Series: Banking (18 Articles, 53923 views), Economic Reform (99 Articles, 312602 views), Politics (56 Articles, 193636 views) (View All Series)
Supporting Israel in the USA, From ImagesAttr
Friday, August 8, 2014 (191 comments) SHARE More Sharing 10 Reasons Progressives Ought to support Israel, even now A lot of liberals or progressives are confused about supporting Israel, or outright opposed to doing so, especially now, when the current conflict, Operation Defensive Edge, with Hamas has eclipsed the carnage and damage of the last big battle, Operation Cast Lead, in 2012. However, here are 10 Reasons that progressives ought to be interested in regarding Israel
Series: Middle East Articles (8 Articles, 16705 views)
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 (52 comments) SHARE More Sharing What 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, 312602 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 120405 views)
Henry George, From ImagesAttr
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 (1 comments) SHARE More Sharing Have 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, 312602 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 120405 views)
Is there a Money Tree?  Does it need nurturing?, From ImagesAttr
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 (73 comments) SHARE More Sharing The 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, 312602 views), Banking (18 Articles, 53923 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 83199 views) (View All Series)
Snowden was only the first whistleblower, From ImagesAttr
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 (4 comments) SHARE More Sharing Second 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, 65650 views), NSA Whistleblowers (1 Articles, 4304 views), Politics (56 Articles, 193636 views) (View All Series)
Money Tree - grown from the Commons?, From ImagesAttr
Friday, June 27, 2014 (19 comments) SHARE More Sharing Who 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, 312602 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 120405 views)
A similar plane to MH370, From ImagesAttr
Thursday, May 8, 2014 (33 comments) SHARE More Sharing The 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, 49334 views)
Search Area, From ImagesAttr
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 (13 comments) SHARE More Sharing Was 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, 49334 views)
The Education Olympics, From ImagesAttr
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 (27 comments) SHARE More Sharing The 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, 3153 views), Politics (56 Articles, 193636 views)
Photo: Flickr.com/Michael Fleshman/сс-by-sa 3.0, From ImagesAttr
Saturday, April 5, 2014 (17 comments) SHARE More Sharing Occupy'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, 193636 views)
Grand Bargain Watch - Save Social Security, From ImagesAttr
Sunday, March 30, 2014 (3 comments) SHARE More Sharing Asking "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, 312602 views), Social Security (5 Articles, 10829 views), Sovereign Money (20 Articles, 83199 views) (View All Series)
Are we still practicing Slavery?, From ImagesAttr
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 (61 comments) SHARE More Sharing The new Neo-Slavery Has Slavery gone away or just become more regulated and codified?
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 312602 views)
Chuck Schumer - Caricature, From ImagesAttr
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 (6 comments) SHARE More Sharing So, 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, 193636 views)
Alanna Hartzok, From ImagesAttr
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 (7 comments) SHARE More Sharing A 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, 120405 views), Politics (56 Articles, 193636 views)
Scene from Big Men, From ImagesAttr
Saturday, March 15, 2014 SHARE More Sharing Big Men - Film Review Exploring the oil curse in Ghana and Nigeria, using fairness and balance.
Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 312602 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 120405 views)

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