CEPR in the News (Archive)

July - September 2011

• Anwar al-Awlaki Killing an Obama Foreign Policy Triumph?
  The Arena (POLITICO), September 30, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• GE’s Bogus Reason for Ending Its Pension Plan
  Working (In These Times), September 30, 2011 (Dean Baker, Mark Weisbrot)
  
  
• Experts Point Out That Limits On Debit Card Transaction Fees Help Consumers
  Media Matters for America, September 30, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Here’s How to Make Wall Street Pay for Wrecking the Economy
  AFL-CIO Now Blog, September 29, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Here’s an Idea — Reduce the Deficit By Taxing Securities Trades
  Financial Folly (BNET), September 28, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Stimulus Tales
  The Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), September 27, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• The Issue: Republicans' Medicare Plan
  AZ Fact Check (The Arizona Republic), September 26, 2011 (CEPR)
  
  
• Infographic: Six Ways Unions Build a Strong Middle Class
  Center for American Progress Action Fund, September 23, 2011 (John Schmitt)
  
  
• Dean Baker: Raimondo-Chafee Pension Ideas Look ‘Fairly Harsh’
  Nesi's Notes (WPRI Eyewitness News), September 21, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Does Suskind book hurt Obama White House?
  The Arena (POLITICO), September 20, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Fox "Straight News" Correspondent Pushes Falsehood That Social Security "May Run Out Of Money"
  Media Matters for America, September 19, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dean Baker, The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
  Firedoglake, September 18, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Audit Notes: Scotland Yard Thugs, Reuters Raises Its Sights, An NYT Miss
  The Audit (Columbia Journalism Review), September 16, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• The Pentagon’s Latest Misleading Argument To Protect Its Budget: Cuts Will Lead To Higher Unemployment
  Security (ThinkProgress), September 16, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Are You a Loser Liberal? Read On and Find Out
  Third and State, September 16, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Experts: Let Deficit Grow to Stimulate Economy
  AFL-CIO Now Blog, September 14, 2011 (CEPR)
  
  
• Payroll Tax Cuts – Just How Much Bang for Buck?
  Working Economics, September 14, 2011 (Dean Baker, David Rosnick)
  
  
• The German Plan to Reduce U.S. Unemployment
  Wonkblog (The Washington Post), September 12, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Fact Check: Social Security, Health Care and More
  The Caucus (The New York Times), September 12, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Social Security Is Not A Ponzi Scheme
  Media Matters for America, September 08, 2011 (Dean Baker, Mark Weisbrot)
  
  
• USA Today Mistake: There is No Tax Bracket Cliff
  Jay Hancock (The Baltimore Sun), September 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• How Many Jobs Do We Need To Create?
  Seeking Alpha, September 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Mitt Romney Releases Plan to Increase Unemployment and the Budget Deficit
  The Notion (The Nation), September 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Romney Supports Branding China a Currency Manipulator in Economic Plan
  Firedoglake, September 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Is Iceland Doing Better Than Latvia?
  Eagle Eye (The London Independent), September 06, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)
  
  
• Ask Mister Math Person
  Jonathan Chait (The New Republic), September 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Mission Possible: 5 Ways Obama Can Create Jobs
  Financial Folly (BNET), September 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Public Job Creation
  Economix (The New York Times), September 05, 2011 (Eileen Appelbaum)
  
  
• Can Obama Create Jobs Using His Executive Authority?
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), September 02, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Free Book! Good Book!
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), September 01, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• 'Moderate' Jon Huntsman Releases Right-Wing 'Jobs' Plan
  The Notion (The Nation), September 01, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Limbaugh Pushes Myth That Unemployment Benefits Have "No Stimulative Effect"
  Media Matters for America, August 31, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• New Book by Dean Baker
  Social Europe Journal, August 30, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Was It Housing What Did It?
  Free Exchange (The Economist), August 29, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Really? You Picked Him? Airing An Unusual Perspective
  NPR Ombudsman (NPR), August 25, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Economists: GOP Cites Deeply Flawed CBS Report To Blame Debt On Obama
  TPMDC, August 24, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• New Report Highlights Unnecessary Sickness and Death From Cholera in Haiti
  Partners in Health, August 23, 2011 (CEPR)
  
  
• Secondary Sources: College Costs, Taxing Stocks, Bankruptcy
  Real-Time Economics (The Wall Street Journal), August 22, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• What Obama Could Have Done, Part II
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), August 22, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• The Continuing Unemployment Crisis
  Employment Policy Resource Network, August 19, 2011 (Eileen Appelbaum)
  
  
• Refi Surge ... Not So Much
  Realty Check (MSNBC), August 19, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Lake Wobegon Economics
  The Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), August 18, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Hannity Blames Obama For The Mortgage Crisis
  County Fair (Media Matters for America), August 17, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Busted Recovery: How Much is Housing to Blame?
  The Curious Capitalist (TIME), August 16, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Five Ideas to Create Jobs That Are so Crazy They Might Just Work
  The Lookout (Yahoo! News), August 12, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Baker Fries S&P on its Downbeat U.S. Debt View
  City Spy (London Evening Standard), August 10, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Can a New Plan to Rent Out Foreclosed Properties Help the Housing Market?
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), August 10, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Debt Crisis: A Default in Europe Could Benefit Poor Countries
  Poverty Matters (The Guardian), August 09, 2011 (Mark Weisbrot)
  
  
• Alternate Market Explanations – Non-Standard and Poor’s Edition
  Firedoglake, August 09, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Why the Housing Market is Still Dragging Down the Recovery
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), August 09, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Liberals Outline Stimulus Agenda in 'Contract for the American Dream'
  On the Money (The Hill), August 09, 2011 (CEPR)
  
  
• Brother, Can You Spare a Job?
  Political Mojo (Mother Jones), August 09, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Contract For The American Dream And The Emergency Jobs Bill
  Seeing the Forest, August 09, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Is Geithner's Continued Post Good for Obama's Re-election?
  The Arena (POLITICO), August 08, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• China Calls For a New International Reserve Currency That Isn’t the Dollar (Again)
  Going Concern, August 08, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Continued Economic Malaise Could Mean Next Debt Limit Increase Would Be Needed Before 2012 Elections
  Firedoglake, August 05, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Playing It Safe the McCaskill Way
  Columbia Journalism Review, August 04, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Fox Pushes "Impossible" Claim That U.S. Could Soon Become Like Greece
  Media Matters for America, August 03, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Hill Super Committee a Ploy or Serious Solution?
  The Arena (POLITICO), August 02, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Who Will Sit on the Supercommittee?
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), August 02, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Debt Ceiling Agreement a Fair Compromise?
  The Arena (POLITICO), July 31, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• News From the Real Economy
  Harold Meyerson (The American Prospect), July 30, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• What the New GDP Numbers Tell Us About Stimulus
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), July 29, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Backward, March: The Economy Is In Much Worse Shape Than We Thought
  Financial Folly (BNET), July 29, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• President Obama Doesn't Understand the Origins of the Deficit
  Grasping Reality With Both Hands, July 29, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Want to Start Your Own Business? Better Try France
  FrumForum, July 27, 2011 (John Schmitt)
  
  
• Employment of Elderly: Supply or Demand?
  Economix (The New York Times), July 27, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Yes, Tax the Wealthy
  PolicyMic, July 27, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• President Obama’s Stuck on the Wrong Kind of Stimulus
  Working (In These Times), July 26, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Reconciliation
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), July 25, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• A Housing Affordability Problem
  The Real Estate Wonk (Baltimore Sun), July 22, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Government Spending Cuts Don’t Cut, They Shift Costs To US
  Seeing the Forest, July 21, 2011 (CEPR)
  
  
• Let’s Just Deep-Six the Gang of Six Deficit Plan
  Financial Folly (BNET), July 20, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• NY Times Piece Echoes Right-Wing Falsehood On Financial Crisis
  Media Matters for America, July 20, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Lats of Luck
  The Conscience of a Liberal (New York Times), July 18, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Can Sportsmen Rebuff Enviro Cuts?
  The Arena (POLITICO), July 13, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Who's Sticking Up for the Middle Class?
  The Huffington Post, July 13, 2011 (CEPR)
  
  
• Can President Obama Keep Paying Social Security Benefits Even if the Debt Ceiling is Reached?
  The Fact Checker (The Washington Post), July 13, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• The President Needs to Stop Scaring Seniors
  The Corner (National Review), July 13, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Global Markets Facing a Perfect Storm?
  The Source (Wall Street Journal), July 12, 2011 (CEPR)
  
  
• Obama's Overwhelming Campaign Cash?
  The Arena (POLITICO), July 11, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Hill Democrats' Entitlement Mentality?
  The Arena (POLITICO), July 08, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• June Jobs, Part 3: Somebody Do Something!
  On the Economy, July 08, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Greece No Trojan Horse for Latin America
  Kenneth Rapoza (Forbes), July 07, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Ron Paul's Debt Default Proposal
  Econbrowser, July 06, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• The Great Financial Crisis: What Really Happened
  Tim Worstall (Forbes), July 05, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Ron Paul Suggests Using Fed to End Run Debt Ceiling Impasse
  Naked Capitalism, July 05, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• Reckless Endangerment of the Truth
  Economist's View, July 04, 2011 (Dean Baker)
  
  
• 5 Things To Know About the GOP Plan for Medicare
  House Democrats Blog, July 01, 2011 (CEPR)
  
  
• 45 Years After Medicare's Implementation, Republicans Are Trying To End It
  Political Correction (Media Matters Action Network), July 01, 2011 (CEPR)