CEPR in the News (Archive)

April - June 2011

• Right to Rent: A Reminder of a Simple Fix to Alleviate the Foreclosure Crisis
  Firedoglake, June 28, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Eric Cantor Gutsy or 'Gutless' on Dect Talk Walk-Out
  The Arena (POLITICO), June 24, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Does Al Gore Have Legitimate Gripes with Obama
  The Arena (POLITICO), June 23, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• More Treachery at the Fed?
  The Market Oracle, June 22, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Greece: ‘Creditors’ Rule Must End or We Do an Argentina’
  Firedoglake, June 22, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)


• What ‘Inside Job’ Got Wrong
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), June 22, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Greece Is Right to Beware an IMF Bearing Gifts
  Financial Folly (BNET), June 21, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• How Republican Brinksmanship Threatens Wall Street
  GlobalPost , June 21, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Europe’s Fate Hangs From A Thread Ahead Of Greek Confidence Vote
  Moral Hazard (Forbes), June 20, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)


• Why No Senate Democratic Budget?
  The Arena (POLITICO), June 19, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Go Dean!
  Economics and Similar, for the Sleep-Deprived, June 17, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• David Brooks: Blame the Economic Collapse on Barney Frank and ACORN
  The Plum Line (The Washington Post), June 17, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Obama-Boehner 'Golf Summit': Will it Help?
  The Arena (POLITICO), June 17, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Bankers Mug Greece Today, You Tomorrow
  Firedoglake, June 14, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Near-Term Budget Cuts a Major Threat to Economy
  Firedoglake, June 13, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• DNC Leader Help or Hindrance?
  The Arena (POLITICO), June 10, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Prison Math
  Reason, June 09, 2011 (CEPR)


• Obama Administration Seeks Employer-Side Payroll Tax Cut
  Firedoglake, June 09, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)


• Republican Beliefs About Elders
  Time Goes By, June 08, 2011 (CEPR)


• Is US Debt Problem As Big As The 1990s Latin America Crisis?
  Bric Breaker (Forbes), June 08, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)


• Five Progressive Tax Increases That Washington Won't Talk About
  The Huffington Post, June 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• On Nicholas Kristof's Boneheaded 'Paean to Economists'
  The Huffington Post, June 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Reboot for Obama Economic Team?
  The Arena (POLITICO), June 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Fed Official: Relax, The Recovery's Still on Track
  The Lookout (Yahoo! News), June 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Washington Must Take Action on Jobs Numbers, Says Obama's Former Top Economic Adviser
  The Lookout (Yahoo! News), June 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Paid Sick Days Bill Gains Momentum
  Jobacle.com, June 05, 2011 (Eileen Appelbaum)


• Prisons and the Social Fabric
  Muniland (Reuters), June 03, 2011 (CEPR)


• The Grim New Unemployment Report Underscores Country’s Massive Jobs Deficit
  Working (In These Times), June 03, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• From ‘Great Prosperity’ (1947-1977) to This?
  Firedoglake, June 03, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Will Elusive Jobs Haunt Obama?
  The Arena (POLITICO), June 03, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Affordable Housing Groups Fronting for Bank Interests on Risk Retention
  Firedoglake, June 02, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Prizes, Not Patents, For Drug Discovery?
  Pharmalot, June 02, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• If We Need Taxes, Why Not Pollution Taxes?
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), June 01, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Overworked and Underplayed: The Incredible Shrinking Vacation
  The Huffington Post, May 31, 2011 (CEPR)


• The Big Dipper: How Much Lower Will Home Prices Go?
  Financial Folly (BNET), May 31, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Inviting Chaos: The Perils of Toying With the Debt Ceiling
  Seeking Alpha, May 31, 2011 (CEPR)


• Why CBS Face the Nation Fails: Cantor Lies, Harry Ignores, No Correction
  Firedoglake, May 29, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• America's Real Radicals: The 40 Senators Who Voted Against Medicare
  The Huffington Post, May 27, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Detroit Automakers: Not Exactly the Dukes of Moral Hazard
  Shifting Gears (BNET), May 27, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Federal Reserve Criticized for Lending Secrecy
  FrumForum, May 26, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Is Fed's Stimulus a Cause of High Gas Prices?
  The Lookout (Yahoo! News), May 25, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• A Union Maid Reported Strauss-Kahn Sexual Assault
  Firedoglake, May 23, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Comparing and Contrasting Germany and Denmark’s Recessions
  Rortybomb, May 20, 2011 (John Schmitt)


• Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession
  Economist's View, May 19, 2011 (John Schmitt)


• The Success Of German Labor Market Policy
  Yglesias (Think Progress), May 19, 2011 (John Schmitt)


• Stupid Stimulus Tricks
  The Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), May 18, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Study: Obama's Stimulus Cost 595,000 Jobs
  Investors Business Daily, May 18, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Economists Dismantle Conservative Media's Latest
  Media Matters for America, May 18, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• How the media misrepresents European growth numbers
  Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Economist Dean Baker Points Out "Problems" With Fox-Hyped Paper On How Stimulus Supposedly Destroyed Jobs
  Media Matters for America, May 17, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Means-Testing Doublethink
  The Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), May 16, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Paul Ryan says Barack Obama wants a top tax rate of 44.8 percent
  PolitiFact, May 16, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• The Krugman-Weisbrot Debate on Greece and the Euro
  ROAR, May 14, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)


• Good News for Grandpa
  Economix (The New York Times), May 13, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Medicare, Social Security May Exhaust Funds Sooner Than Expected
  The Rundown (PBS NewsHour), May 13, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Greece: Preemptive Debt Restructuring Or Eurozone Exit
  Moral Hazard (Forbes), May 11, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)


• Fox's "Straight News" Adopts GOP Talking Points That Democrats Are Scaring Seniors
  County Fair (Media Matters for America), May 11, 2011 (CEPR)


• Greek Out?
  The Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), May 10, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)


• Greece Should Abandon the Euro, Writes Mark Weisbrot
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), May 10, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)


• The Greeks Should Give the Moutza to the Euro
  Points and Figures, May 10, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)


• Ryan's $34 Trillion Tax Folly
  Tax.com, May 09, 2011 (Dean Baker, David Rosnick)


• Progressive Economists, Third Way Agree on Dangers of a Spending Cap
  Firedoglake, May 09, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• What to Do About Unemployment
  Seeking Alpha, May 09, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• VSP Economics
  The Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), May 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Dueling April Jobs Numbers Cloud Some Good News for Economy
  The Rundown (PBS News Hour), May 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Seniors Would Need to Save an Extra $182,000 Under GOP Medicare Plan
  Healthwatch (The Hill), May 05, 2011 (CEPR)


• An Average CEO At America’s Big Corporations Earns 200 Times The Salary Of A Navy SEAL
  ThinkProgress, May 05, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• The GOP Jobs Plan That Wasn't
  The Notion (The Nation), May 05, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Paul Ryan Takes His Budget Plan to the Public
  Express Milwaukee, May 04, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Republicans Give Trillions to Health Insurance Companies
  The Huffington Post, May 03, 2011 (Dean Baker, David Rosnick)


• Dean Baker: The Washington Post Confuses Economic Recovery with Fears of Insolvency
  Brad Delong's Grasping Reality With Both Hands, May 01, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• The Gas-Price Debate
  Gulliver (The Economist), May 01, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Town Hall Rage - Organic or Manufactured?
  The Arena (POLITICO), April 29, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Alan Simpson Just Asked Me to Leave Rich People Alone
  War is a Crime, April 28, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Economists React: First-Quarter GDP 'Stutter' Likely Temporary
  Real-Time Economics (The Wall Street Journal), April 28, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Allen West To Town Hall: 'If You Support Medicare…You Can Kiss The United States Of America Goodbye'
  ThinkProgress, April 28, 2011 (CEPR)


• WashPost's Hot Air on Haiti's 'Fresh, Vital Force'
  FAIR Blog, April 27, 2011 (CEPR)


• Liberal Policy Shop: Ryan Medicare Plan Drives Healthcare Costs Up $34T
  Healthwatch (The Hill), April 27, 2011 (CEPR)


• The Left's Stealth Budget Plan
  The Daily Beast (Yahoo! News), April 27, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Ron Paul's Moment?
  The Arena (POLITICO), April 26, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Dean Baker Writes to Senator Carper On Social Security
  Delaware Liberal, April 26, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Two Cheers for Ben Bernanke and QE2 — but None for Congress
  Financial Folly (BNET), April 26, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• European and US Employment
  The Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), April 24, 2011 (CEPR)


• Public Pension Rebound Bolsters Optimists’ Case on Liabilities
  Prism Money (Reuters), April 21, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• A History of Poor Standards
  The Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), April 20, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Proper Reaction to S&P Credit Downgrade Threat: Bursting Out Laughing
  Firedoglake, April 19, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• The S & P Downgrading
  Michael Tomasky's Blog (The Guardian), April 19, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Economists React: S&P Outlook Cut ‘No Big Deal’
  Real Time Economics (The Wall Street Journal), April 18, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• How the McCaskill-Corker Spending Cap Could Increase Deficits
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), April 18, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• David Brooks Will Ensure That Barack Obama Buys Paul Ryan A Sandwich
  The Huffington Post, April 15, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Fox & Friends Still Whining About Supposedly Unfair Taxes On The Wealthy
  County Fair (Media Matters for America), April 14, 2011 (CEPR)


• The Morning Plum
  The Plum Line (The Washington Post), April 14, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• UofL Prof: Government Workers Make Too Much
  Derby City Cents (Louisville Courier-Journal), April 13, 2011 (CEPR)


• What President Obama Will — and Won’t — Say in His Speech Tomorrow
  Financial Folly (BNET), April 12, 2011 (CEPR)


• Social Security Means Testing is Necessary, but it's Only a Tiny Solution
  Yahoo! News, April 12, 2011 (CEPR)


• Will U.S. Go Belly-up on Debt?
  The Arena (POLITICO), April 11, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Housing Lock is not a Major Part of this Crisis, Plus Scatterplots of Deleveraging!
  Rortybomb, April 11, 2011 (John Schmitt, Kris Warner)


• Paul Ryan Budget: Grand Old Bullshit
  Death and Taxes, April 11, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• A Word From Those Who
  The Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), April 10, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Government Shutdown Averted: Winners and Losers?
  The Arena (POLITICO), April 09, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Would You Like a Side Dish With Your Death Panel?
  Unpublishable Thoughts, April 08, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Pulling the Plug on Working Families to Give Tax Cuts to Millionaires
  The Huffington Post, April 08, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• A Bold, Brave Plan to Take from the Poor and Give to the Rich
  The Moderate Voice, April 07, 2011 (CEPR)


• Paul Ryan’s Unrealistic Budget Claims
  E.D. Kain (Forbes), April 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• The Washington Post and Paul Ryan's Wonky Math
  FAIR Blog, April 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Black Unemployment Rises Even as Jobless Rate Drops
  AFL-CIO Now Blog, April 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Krugman Exposes GOP Ryan’s Unicorn Budget, Catches Heritage Burying Number
  Firedoglake, April 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Dean Baker Gut Punches the Ryan Medicare Plan
  The Washington Note, April 06, 2011 (Dean Baker, David Rosnick)


• Dean Baker Is Correct: Representative Ryan Proposes Medicare Plan Under Which Most Seniors Would Pay Most of Their Income for Health Care
  Grasping Reality With All Ten Tentacles, April 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Paul Ryan's Absurdly Optimistic Budget Projections Draw Widespread Ridicule
  Talking Points Memo, April 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Dean Baker On Unemployment, Other Recent Econ Data
  Benzinga, April 05, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Paul Ryan Budget Hard-Headed or Inhumane?
  The Arena (POLITICO), April 05, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Weighing the Week Ahead: All Eyes on Energy Prices
  Seeking Alpha, April 04, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Broken Market of the Day: Pharmaceuticals
  Felix Salmon (Reuters), April 03, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Those Free Spending Republicans and the War in Libya
  The Arena (Politico), April 02, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Can the Confirmation Crisis Be Fixed?
  The Arena (POLITICO), April 02, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• Why Are Private Markets Booming Now?
  Felix Salmon (Reuters), April 01, 2011 (Dean Baker)


• 'I’m Sticking to the Union'
  UAW News, April 01, 2011 (John Schmitt)