“South of the Border”: New Openings, Interviews, and Response to Criticism

Mark Weisbrot, CEPR Co-Director and co-writer of the Oliver Stone documentary, "South of the Border," responds to ill-informed criticism of the film in his latest Guardian column. The film is showing to large audiences in various U.S. cities, and opens in Minneapolis, Seattle, Santa Barbara, and Portland, OR this weekend. Listen to Mark's latest radio interviews about the film here.
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Obama Signs off on Wall Street Reform Bill

Congress has passed a financial reform bill that the White House hails as the most sweeping reform of the financial sector in decades. While many aspects, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, represent a step forward, Dean Baker argues the legislation could go further by including policy tools like a financial speculation tax amongst others.
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Spain: Stimulus Better for Economy, Debt Burden, Than Austerity

A new CEPR report shows that Spain, under pressure to cut spending and raise taxes while its economy is barely recovering, might be better off with a continued stimulus instead. The report also shows that Spain's recession is the result of the collapse of sizable housing and stock market bubbles, rather than government overspending.
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The Urgent Need for Job Creation
On the heels of the Senate vote on the extension of unemployment benefits, Sen. Al Franken, Rep. Keith Ellison and Alan Charney of Jobs for America Now joined John Schmitt of CEPR for a press conference to discuss the findings of a new CEPR report on the desperate need for action on job creation. The report shows that absent serious proposals for job creation, it may take a decade for the nation to get back to pre-recession unemployment rates. |
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America Speaks Back on the Deficit
AmericaSpeaks hosted 19 simultaneous meetings in cities across the country asking people to come up with proposals for dealing with the country's projected long-term budget deficits. CEPR's analyses of the discussion materials for the meetings show that they were aimed at persuading participants to choose cuts to Social Security and Medicare, but it seems that events didn't quite go as planned. |
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CEPR in the News |
Hungary Shows IMF Austerity `Dangerous' for European Recovery, CEPR Says Bloomberg, July 28, 2010
Spain Needs More Stimulus, Not Austerity, U.S. Think-Tank Says EFE, July 27, 2010
Deficit-Cutting Ax May Fall on Social Security The Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 2010
Oliver Stone’s Latin Film The New York Times, July 24, 2010
Germany and Nordics Top Global List for Parental Leave Reuters, July 20, 2010
Unemployment: Report Says Jobs Hole Could Persist For A Decade The Huffington Post, July 20, 2010
Weakening Recovery Brings Deja Vu The Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2010
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