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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 906 week(s) and 3 day(s) 381 Articles, 1491 Quick Links, 3971 Comments, 41 Diaries, 3 Petitions, 37 Series, 7 Polls
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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 (107 Articles, 357454 views), Middle East Articles (10 Articles, 19835 views), Oil Market (1 Articles, 421 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 (1 Articles, 604 views), Middle East Articles (10 Articles, 19835 views), Artificial Intelligence (8 Articles, 14979 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 (63 Articles, 216830 views), War (4 Articles, 4954 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 (107 Articles, 357454 views), Electric Vehicles (2 Articles, 6600 views), Politics (63 Articles, 216830 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 (8 Articles, 14979 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 (107 Articles, 357454 views), Georgism (38 Articles, 134547 views), Politics (63 Articles, 216830 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, 64419 views), Economic Reform (107 Articles, 357454 views), Public Banking (38 Articles, 178195 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 (63 Articles, 216830 views), Artificial Intelligence (8 Articles, 14979 views), Stock Market (1 Articles, 1528 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, 806 views), Russia (1 Articles, 806 views), Politics (63 Articles, 216830 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 (107 Articles, 357454 views), Government debt & budgets (2 Articles, 2614 views), Public Banking (38 Articles, 178195 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, 64419 views), Economic Reform (107 Articles, 357454 views), Sovereign Money (22 Articles, 93294 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 (107 Articles, 357454 views), Sovereign Money (22 Articles, 93294 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 (107 Articles, 357454 views), Government debt & budgets (2 Articles, 2614 views), Politics (63 Articles, 216830 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 (8 Articles, 14979 views), Georgism (38 Articles, 134547 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, 4543 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. |
