CEPR in the Blogs (Archive)

October - December 2010

• The Best Economics Blogs
  The Source (The Wall Street Journal), December 30, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Why The Upward Revision in Third Quarter GDP Growth is Not Good News
  Maximum Utility (CBS Money Watch), December 22, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Austerity Fails in Euroland: Time for Some "Deficit Easing?"
  The Huffington Post, December 22, 2010 (Mark Weisbrot)

• The War on Pensions
  Kevin Drum (Mother Jones), December 22, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Blogging WikiLeaks News & Views for Friday, Day 20
  The Nation, December 17, 2010 (Mark Weisbrot)

• Will the Tax Deal Kill Social Security?
  The Curious Capitalist (TIME), December 16, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Rep. Rush Holt: Tax Deal Turns Social Security Into ‘Just Another Trading Chip’
  ThinkProgress, December 15, 2010 (Eileen Appelbaum)

• The GOP's Epic Financial Crisis Commission Fail
  Mojo (Mother Jones), December 15, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• The GOP Got More Of Their Demands Than You Might Think In The Tax Deal
  Business Insider, December 13, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Time to "Stress Test" the Fed
  The Huffington Post, December 10, 2010 (CEPR)

• More Payroll Tax Cut Problems – Sets Up Future Hostage-Taking
  Firedoglake, December 10, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• The Big Question: Will Environmental Incentives Give Liberals a Reason to Vote for the Obama-GOP Tax Deal?
  Congress Blog (The Hill), December 10, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• What the Fed Is Still Owed by Wall Street
  DealBook (The New York Times), December 07, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Economists React: Pros, Cons of Tax Deal
  Real Time Economics (The Wall Street Journal), December 07, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Banks That Failed Despite Fed’s Cash
  DealBook (The New York Times), December 06, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• My One-Man Deficit Commission Challenges Obama's Blue Ribbon Cat Food Commission Chairs
  The Huffington Post, December 05, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Considering Hyperinflationista Investment Strategies
  Seeking Alpha, December 02, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Unemployment Benefit Extension Could Come in Tax Cut Deal
  Firedoglake, December 02, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Pens Down, Papers Passed Front… or: Who’s Paying Your Rent, Alan & Erskine?
  Firedoglake, December 01, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Deficit Problem? What Deficit Problem?
  The Angle (The Boston Globe), December 01, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Holding Haiti Accountable
  TAPPED (The American Prospect), November 30, 2010 (CEPR)

• Barriers to Ex-Offender Employment Could Cost the Nation at Least $57 Billion
  Money and Company (The Los Angeles Times), November 30, 2010 (John Schmitt)

• Don't Forget to Save for a Rainy Day
  The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), November 29, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Raising Retirement Age and 'Death Panels'
  The Huffington Post, November 26, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• CEPR's Beeton: Obama Administration Should Demand Delaying Haiti's Elections
  Think Tanked, November 23, 2010 (Dan Beeton)

• Rep. Kucinich to Hold Hearing on Fed Effort to Boost Economy
  On the Money (The Hill), November 23, 2010 (CEPR)

• Deficit Hawks, Tax Chickens
  Economix (The New York Times), November 22, 2010 (CEPR)

• TNR Decides It Was Maybe Right The First Time About The Deficit Commission
  Das Krapital (The Washington City Paper), November 22, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Left Opposes Replacing Summers With Wall Street Vet
  The Gaggle (Newsweek), November 22, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Revised Cartoon: Bernanke and the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing
  Firedoglake, November 20, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Seething Over the Economy
  Kevin Drum (Mother Jones), November 20, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Charlie Rose Opens Up the Deficit Debate
  FAIR Blog, November 19, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Not Everyone Agrees Deficit is Major Problem
  The Lookout (Yahoo! News), November 18, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Economist: US and Ireland Both Fell Prey to Real Estate Market
  Surge Desk (AOL News), November 18, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Second Group Of Deficit Hawks Calls For Regressive National Sales Tax
  The Huffington Post, November 17, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• McConnell Flip-Flops on Earmarks, But Does It Really Matter?
  Surge Desk (AOL News), November 16, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• The Commission’s Messy Social Security Fix And A Better Way
  Capital Hill (Investor's Business Daily), November 16, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• When They Say "Everyone" Must Sacrifice, They Mean Poor People
  The Awl, November 15, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Four Budget Calculators, One Story
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), November 15, 2010 (CEPR)

• The Unbearable Unbearableness of Rand Paul
  Mojo (Mother Jones), November 12, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• It's the Politics, Stupid: Why Aid Isn't the Answer in Honduras
  Poverty Matters (The Guardian), November 11, 2010 (CEPR)

• The Big Question: What is the Best, Worst Idea From the Debt Panel?
  Congress Blog (The Hill), November 11, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• No Financial Speculation Tax: Morgan Stanley Leaves Their Mark On The Chairmen
  The Huffington Post, November 11, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• The Coming Right-Wing Front on Monetary Policy
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), November 10, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Neat Reads 4
  Numbers Rule Your World, November 09, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Money Managers Want to Cut Social Security to Keep Their Tax Breaks
  AFL-CIO Now Blog, November 09, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Currency Wars: Is Obama a Hypocrite When It Comes to Monetary Policy?
  Surge Desk (AOL News), November 08, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• The Economist vs. BMO Nesbitt Burns: Is Toronto Real Estate Overpriced or Ridiculously Overpriced?
  Toronto Life, November 08, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Federal Reserve Should Bail Out Main Street, Not Wall Street
  AFL-CIO Now Blog, November 05, 2010 (Mark Weisbrot)

• Job-Creation Idea No. 14: A Tax Cut Even Democrats Love
  The Huffington Post, November 05, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• The Big Question: What Should Obama Learn From the Midterms?
  Congress Blog (The Hill), November 04, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Where Do Drugs Come From?
  The Atlantic, November 04, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• From Fiscal to Monetary Stimulus: US Fed to Obama's Rescue?
  Monsters and Critics, November 04, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Budget Deficit Arithmetic
  Kevin Drum (Mother Jones), November 04, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Obama Economic Team Passes Out the Kool-Aid
  Center for Media and Democracy, November 03, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Economists Spar Over Effect of Health Reform on Job Creation
  Healthwatch (The Hill), November 02, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Wanker of the Day: David Brooks
  Eschaton, October 29, 2010 (CEPR)

• Third Quarter GDP Grew at 2%
  Firedoglake, October 29, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• State Ballot Initiatives Ensure Employee Free Choice Act Stays Dead
  Working (In These Times), October 29, 2010 (CEPR)

• David Brooks Says Unemployed Care More About Values Than Jobs
  Surge Desk (AOL News), October 29, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• State Ballot Initiatives Ensure Employee Free Choice Act Stays Dead
  Working (In These Times), October 29, 2010 (CEPR)

• Time to Kick Over the Prevailing Orthodoxy in Economic Thought
  Rabble, October 26, 2010 (Mark Weisbrot)

• The Big Question: Do Democrats Deserve More Credit?
  Congress Blog (The Hill), October 25, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• David Corn: How Obama Lost the Narrative
  AMERICAblog, October 25, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Can We Cut Our Way to Growth?
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), October 21, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• The Big Question: How Can Obama Re-ignite His Message of Change?
  Congress Blog (The Hill), October 21, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Conservatives Talk Debt, Forget Jobs
  Frum Forum, October 21, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• The Big Question: Is the American Dream Still Alive?
  Congress Blog (The Hill), October 20, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• How The NY Times Is Wrong About the Japanese Economy
  Seeking Alpha, October 18, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Yes, the Washington Post Should Shut Down Today (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?)
  Grasping Reality With Both Hands, October 18, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Baker vs. Scissors: A Debate on China
  Economix (The New York Times), October 15, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• On "Mowing Grass" in Mexico
  Hemispheric Brief, October 15, 2010 (CEPR)

• The Big Question: Do We Need a Foreclosure Moratorium in U.S.?
  Congress Blog (The Hill), October 15, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Choosing the 1970s Over the 1930s
  The Source (Wall Street Journal), October 14, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Cold Case File: Who Shot Down a 70-Year-Old Attack on Social Security?
  The Huffington Post, October 14, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Dean Baker: 'This isn’t going to be TARP II'
  Ezra Klein (The Washington Post), October 14, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Contrary to Politico, Social Security Benefits Aren't Pegged to Growth
  Surge Desk (AOL News), October 14, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• The Case of the Misunderstood Bailout
  OMB Watch, October 13, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Public Employees Under Attack
  AFL-CIO Now Blog, October 13, 2010 (CEPR)

• Guess Who's Going to Pay the Bill for the Foreclosure Crisis?
  Daily Kos, October 13, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Rule of Law: Why We Need to Freeze Foreclosures
  BNET, October 12, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• 3 Sector Financial Balances Map: Not All Financial Balances Are Created Equally
  Seeking Alpha, October 12, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Will the Obama Administration's Attacks on the Chamber of Commerce Work?
  Arena Digest (POLITICO), October 12, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Gov. Mitch Daniels Compares Dangers Of U.S. Spending To Soviet Nuclear Threat: America Is Facing 'Genuine Survival-Level Issue'
  The Huffington Post, October 11, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• Math Check: New York Times Fudges Auto Workers' Salaries?
  Surge Desk (AOL News), October 08, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• A Pledge To 1% of America
  AlterNet, October 08, 2010 (John Schmitt)

• Math Check: New York Times Fudges Auto Workers' Salaries?
  Surge Desk (AOL News), October 08, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• When Did the Trade Deficit Start Falling?
  Economix (The New York Times), October 06, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• American Overwork and German
  Grist Magazine, October 06, 2010 (Dean Baker)

• "South of the Border" Documentary Film Review
  Axis of Logic, October 06, 2010 (Mark Weisbrot)

• Brazilian Elections: No True Right Left?
  Open Left, October 05, 2010 (Mark Weisbrot)

• Social Security: the Simple Solution
  Nygaard Notes (The Daily Planet), October 03, 2010 (Dean Baker, Mark Weisbrot)

• TARP Turns 2
  Fitsnews, October 01, 2010 (Dean Baker)