CEPR in the Blogs: January - March 2009 |
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CEPR in the Blogs (Archive) January - March 2009 Ezra Klein (American Prospect): Why Low Birth Rates Are Awesome Congress Blog (The Hill): The Big Question: Will Obama Help or Hurt Automakers? Room for Debate (New York Times): Europe's Solution: Take More Time Off PEEK (Alternet): Beltway Media Invent Populist Tight-Rope for Obama Blog for Our Furture (Campaign for America's Future): Congress' Budgets Save Key Details For Later Market Oracle: Geithner Asks Americans to Bend Over to Uncle Sam Congress Blog (The Hill): The Big Question: Obama’s News Conference County Fair (Media Matters for America): Memo to Media: Where's W? Media Matters for America: On MSNBC, Tucker Carlson Rewrote History to Blame Frank for Mortgage Crisis Dollars & Sense Blog: Unemployment Rate On Par With 1982 Recession AlterNet: Approaching a Depression? New Twist in the Old Saga of Under-Counting the Unemployed Mojo Blog (Mother Jones): Robbing the Old to Give to the Young (and the Rich) FAIR Blog: A 'New Overriding Mission' for CNBC Columbia Journalism Review: Sorkin: Contracts Sacrosanct, Except When They’re Not Daily Finance: Inspired by Jon Stewart, Activists Hound CNBC FAIR Blog: Financial Reporters' 'Very Complex' Basic Incompetence Progress Illinois: Illinois Union Density Grows U.S. EconoMonitor: Globalization and Free Trade - Wonders of a Past Era, Now Enemies of America Media Matters for America: IBD Editorial Blamed Frank... FAIR Blog: WSJ Furthers Common Card Check Distortions TAPPED (American Prospect): EFCA Drops Today Congress Blog (The Hill): The Big Question, March 10: The Employee Free Choice Act Campus Progress: The Employee Free Choice Act The Best Life (U.S. News & World Report): Housing Bust Deals a Cruel Blow to Older Homeowners The Best Life (U.S. News & World Report): Is a New Retirement Account in Our Future? NJ.com: N.J. Family Leave Law May be Model for Nation Personal Finance (Chicago Sun-Times): Existing Single-Family Home Prices Down Alliance for Democracy: How Entitlement Reform Became Health Reform Planning to Retire (U.S. News & World Report): House 401(k) Hearing: 4 Ways to Fix the Retirement System Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity: Poor Measurement Series US PIRG Consumer Blog: Proposal to Tax Wall Street Transactions Filed in Congress Media Matters for America: Discussing Financial Crisis, Buchanan Baselessly Blamed Lending in "Minority Communities" Angry Bear: Money Flows is the Key to Viewing Regulation Wonk Room (Think Progress): Economists: Stop Talking About The Non-Existent Social Security Crisis FAIR Blog: NYT Corp. Ignores Solution Costing Corps. Huffington Post: On Canada Trip, Obama Floats a Discredited NAFTA Canard EconoSpeak: 5,000 Characters Huffington Post: Until Congress Acts: Freeze Foreclosures Daily Kos: Obama Outlines New Housing Rescue Plan State of Change (The Nation): Finally, Some Bailout for Homeowners Blog for Our Future (Campaign for America's Future): Foreclosure Crisis Plan Coming Down the Pike Media Matters for America: Wash. Times Adopted GOP's Inflated Cost-Per-Job Calculation for Recovery Bill Postcards from the Edge (Lewiston Tribune, ID): Housing Bubble: That Was Then Firedoglake: Obama, Social Security and the Diamond-Orszag Plan TPM MuckRaker: Morgan Stanley's Spin On Bonuses Economix (New York Times): More Reactions to the New Bailout Plan The Business Desk (PBS Online Newshour): Forecasting Our Economic Future The Daily Beast: Too Little. Too Late? The Inside Job (US News & World Report): More Jobs Created in House Stimulus Bill, Say Economists The Pennsylvania Policy Blog: In Depth Review of the National Employment Situation Huffington Post: New Treasury Plan Weakens Crucial Wall Street Accounting Rules Mojo Blog (Mother Jones): GOP's Stimulus Talking Points Contradict Congressional Research Service FAIR Blog: Worldfocus, Brought to You by Economic Fearmongers Congress Blog (The Hill): The Big Question for Feb. 10: Obama’s Stimulus Pitch The Pennsylvania Policy Blog: National Employment Projections Huffington Post: Why the Stimulus is Too Small Wonk Room (Think Progress): The Compromised Homeownership Tax Credit Huffington Post: Job Loss Chart: What 3.6 Million Jobs Lost Over 13 Months Looks Like Media Matters for Ameria: Krauthammer Repeats Myths About Economic Recovery Package Media Matters for America: Even More Myths and Falsehoods Surrounding the Economic Recovery Plan L.A. Land (Los Angeles Times): Studying the Economic Stimulus Math: $15,000 Times What? Talking Points Memo: A Talk with Dean Baker Marginal Utility: Reinflating the Housing Bubble Media Matters for America: CNN's Costello Repeats "Effective Republican Spin" on Recovery Bill FAIR Blog: Media: What's This Spending Doing in My Stimulus? Washington Independent: The Troubles with Bubbles Talking Points Memo: TPMtv Talks with Dean Baker Congress Blog (The Hill): The Big Question, Feb. 3: Do Dems Need Bipartisanship? FAIR Blog: Catering to Their Customers at the Washington Post Huffington Post: Obama Financial Team to Taxpayers: You'll Get Nothing, and Like It Conscience of a Liberal (NY Times): Breathtaking and Staggering American Prospect: Plunder and Blunder: A Roundtable, Part Two OneWorld.net: 'Change' Predicted for U.S.-Bolivia Relations MinnPost.com: Obama Plan a Good Start, but "We're Definitely Going to Need More" Workforce Management: Union Membership Rises Amid Economic Uncertainty, Surging Layoffs Seattle Real Estate News (Seattle Post-Intelligencer): "The recent job cuts announced at Microsoft and Starbucks will not help the situation in Seattle" OMB Watch: Groups Launch Bailout Watch to Oversee Government Bailout Actions Congress Blog (The Hill): The Big Question, Jan. 27: Economic Intervention TAPPED (American Prospect): Think Tank Round-Up: Better Late than Never Edition American Prospect: Plunder and Blunder: A Roundtable Dollars & Sense Blog: Economists for the Stimulus How the World Works (Salon.com): A Lesson in Stimulus Economics, for Republicans Firedoglake: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dean Baker: Plunder and Blunder Ezra Klein (American Prospect): A Strong, and Also Weak, Dollar Firedoglake: What Book Do You Want Obama to Read? Washington Independent: Not So Fast…Rethinking Infrastructure and the Stimulus Wonk Room (Think Progress): Rep. Oberstar: In Stimulus, Mass Transit Got Nixed For Tax Cuts Think Progress: Congress Pressures Obama To Extend Unnecessary F-22 Program, Claims It’s ‘Too Big To Fail’ County Fair (Media Matters for America): Fox News' Wallace Falsely Claimed "Unemployment in 1937, 1938 Was Higher Than it Was in 1933" Congress Blog (The Hill): The Big Question — Jan. 20: First Message to Obama County Fair (Media Matters for America): Coverage of Economy Repeats Iraq Mistakes Angry Bear: Dean Says Washington Independent: Freddie, Fannie Force Borrowers to Waive Legal Rights Air America: Amy Goodman: Nothing to Fear Except No Health Care FAIR Blog: Selective Economics at the Washington Post Blog for Our Future (Campaign for America's Future): Progressive Breakfast: Obama Rolls Out The TARP Blog for Our Future (Campaign for America's Future): Dean Baker Gives a Lesson: How to Talk about Economic Recovery The Inquirer: Economist Suggests Federal Funding of Open Source Washington Independent: Economist: One in Five Union Organizers Gets Canned Ruth Group: Dean Baker: Economist for the Rest of Us Washington Independent: Obama's 'Brewseter's Millions' Problem Pennsylvania Policy Blog: The National Employment Situation FAIR Blog: Three Strikes on Healthcare at the Post Progressive States Network: Growing Economy: Why States Need to be a Focus for Any Economic Recovery Plan Market Movers (Portfolio.com): Explaining US Government CDS Rates Dollars & Sense Blog: Why So Little Self-Recrimination? Mojo Blog (Mother Jones): Liberal Economists Skeptical of Obama Stimulus Package Real Time Economis (Wall Street Journal): Economists React: 'Scary Employment Report The Vine (New Republic): What Happened to Transit? Washington Independent: Economists, Democrats Criticize Obama Tax Cut Plan Washington Independent: Is There a Citigroup Tax Credit Hidden in the Stimulus Plan? Independent Street (Wall Street Journal): Is Obama's Stimulus Plan Unfair to Some Small Firms? The Plank (The New Republic): Baker: Is this Stimulus Big Enough? Gristmill: The Market Myth Work and Family Blog (Sloan Work and Family Research Network): What's New Big Picture: Who Are the Most Influential Liberal Thinkers? Ezra Klein Blog (American Prospect): When You Can't Trust Drug Companies, Who Can You Trust? January 1, 2009 |