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Reuters: Unity Helps Volatile Latin America Handle Crisis
July 3, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

McClatchy Newspapers: U.S. Taking Cautious Approach to Honduras Political Crisis
July 2, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Dakota Midday (South Dakota Public Broadcasting): Honduran Coup
July 2, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot joins the program at 15:15)

Associated Press: $1.2 Billion in Debts Canceled to Help Haiti
June 30, 2009 (Dan Beeton)

Reuters: Honduras Coup Holds Few Risks for Latin Leftists
June 30, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Al-Jazeera: World Leaders Condemn Honduran Coup
June 29, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Russia Today: “Zelaya May Be Returned Soon”
June 29, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Huffington Post: Pecora Whirling
June 28, 2009 (Dean Baker)

KVBC (NBC, Las Vegas):  What the Unemployment Rate Doesn't Tell Us
June 25, 2009 (John Schmitt, Dean Baker)

Reuters: New Fed Powers Not Matched with Accountability
June 25, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Hill: Employee Free Choice Act: A Second Stimulus
June 24, 2009

Associated Press: Meltdown 101: Where do Home Prices Really Stand?
June 24, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Progressive: At Press Conference, Obama Retreats on Health Care, Economy
June 24, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Capital Times (WI): Tammy Baldwin vs. the Political Lockstep
June 24, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Xinhua: What is Driving Oil and Gas Prices?
June 24, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Inter Press Service: World Bank, IMF Heads Skip Summit on Global Crisis
June 23, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: 238 Members of Congress Disagree with Obama: The Fed Needs More Accountability
June 22, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Sacramento Bee (CA): Bailed-Out Bank's Deals Raise Concerns
June 21, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Associated Press: More Transparency Needed from Fed
June 20, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Watertown Daily Times (NY): Federal Dependents
June 19, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Politico: Arena: Is the Fed Getting Too Much Power?
June 19, 2009 (Dean Baker)

MSNBC: Financial Reform Still in the Early Innings
June 18, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Reuters: Swine Flu Outbreak at Miami Immigration Center to be Discussed on AFGE Radio Show
June 18, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Miami Herald: Obama Rolls Out Sweeping Financial Regulation Package
June 17, 2009

Politico: Arena: What Obstacles Await Obama on Health Care?
June 17, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Forbes: Congress' Chance To Change The IMF
June 17, 2009

CNBC: Financial Reform Stirs Debate: How Much Power to Give Fed?
June 17, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Guardian: Obama Launches Overhaul of US Financial Regulation
June 17, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Hill: Financial Overhaul Plan Draws Many Critics
June 17, 2009 (Dean Baker) 

The Hill: Norquist, GOP Pin Hopes on Spending
June 16, 2009

Flashpoints (KPFA FM): The U.S. Congress Passes a $106 Billion War Spending Bill
June 16, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot joins the program at 39:55)

Free Speech Radio News: IMF Obligations Get in the Way of US War Spending Bill
June 16, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Reuters: Obama Officials Lobby Lawmakers to Approve IMF Money
June 15, 2009

NJBIZ: Bill to Allow Mandatory Paid Time Off Faces Opposition from Business
June 15, 2009 

Your Money (CNN): Who Picks Up America's Spending Tab?
June 13, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Politico: Arena Digest: Exec Pay Reforms: Useful or Useless?
June 12, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Dissident Voice: Will There be Zimbabwe-Type Hyperinflation in the USA?
June 12, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Workforce Management: SHRM, Democrats Tangle Over Paid-Sick-Days Bill
June 11, 2009

The Motley Fool: The Most Dangerous Way to Invest Today
June 11, 2009 (Dean Baker, David Rosnick)

Huffington Post: The IMF Accountability Moment
June 10, 2009

Las Vegas Review: Home Sales Up, Prices Down
June 10, 2009

CSPAN: Morning Hour, House Proceeding
June 9, 2009

The Hill: Frank Defends Intervention to Save GM Facility in his District
June 9, 2009 (John Schmitt)

Radio Free Europe: China, Russia Line Up To Buy IMF's First Bonds
June 9, 2009
(Mark Weisbrot)

CNBC: Four More for Ben?
June 8, 2009
(Mark Weisbrot)

Wall Street Journal: Obama's Speeches Setting a High Bar for Results
June 8, 2009
(Mark Weisbrot)

Huffington Post: Simon Johnson: Via IMF, Our Tax Money Will Bail Out Eurobanks
June 8, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

The Hill: Bad Jobs Data Spur Obama on Stimulus
June 8, 2009 (John Schmitt)

St. Petersburg Times: Sick Times Means a Healthier Economy
June 7, 2009 

Deutsche Presse Agentur: Boosting US Funds for IMF Proves a Hard Sell for Obama
June 6, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

USA Today: Mortgage Crisis Robbing Seniors of Golden Years
June 5, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Fox Business: Congress Reaction to Job Numbers
June 5, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

UPI: AARP Says Recession Hitting Retirees Hard
June 5, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Realtor Magazine: Housing Crisis Tarnishes Golden Years
June 5, 2009

Greenwich Time: Rep's Case Against Sick Leave is Superficial
June 4, 2009 

USA Today: Benefit Spending Soars to New Highs
June 4, 2009 (Dean Baker)

USA Today: Former Treasury Secretary Summers Adapts His Style
June 3, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Charlotte Observer: Don't Take Educational Opportunity Away in N.C.
June 3, 2009

Campus Progress: Righting Past Wrongs
June 1, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

New Zealand Herald: 100,000 Jobs May Go as GM Falls
June 1, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Observer (UK): President's GM Aid Plan Under Fire
May 31, 2009 (Dean Baker)

San Diego Union-Tribune: Foreclosures Increasing for Prime Loans
May 29, 2009 (Dean Baker)

MarketWatch: Ill and on the Job
May 29, 2009

Christian Science Monitor: Why the IMF Should Lighten Up on the World’s Poorest Nations
May 29, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Inter Press Service: NGOs Oppose Nearly 100-Billion-Dollar Pledge to IMF
May 29, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

MarketWatch: Geithner Goes to Beijing to Manage Bad Marriage
May 29, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Portside With Burt Cohen (WSCA FM): 3rd World Economy and $108 Billion for IMF
May 28, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Mother Jones: The Banking Crisis Revisited
May 27, 2009 (Dean Baker)

CNN Money: When it Makes Sense to Rent
May 26, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Nation: The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold
May 26, 2009 (Dean Baker)

PBS Nightly Business Report: Reviving the Economy: Signs of Stimulus?
May 25, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Financial: New Funds for IMF Approved by U.S. Senate Would Worsen Global Economic Downturn, Economists Say
May 23, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

New York TimesU.S. Jobless Rate May Soon Top Europe’s
May 22, 2009 (John Schmitt, Hye Jin Rho, Shawn Fremstad)

Financial Times: U.S. Health Reforms Focus on Cost Control
May 22, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Politico: Alan Grayson to Introduce Paid Vacation Act
May 21, 2009 

Daily Record (NJ): Doc: We All Need to Take Time Off
May 21, 2009 (John Schmitt)

Huffington Post: Rosa DeLauro: Swine Flu "Looming Large" Behind Sick Leave Bill
May 20, 2009

Detroit Metro Times: Two Steps Left
May 20, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Inter Press Service: Banks in Recovery as Home Foreclosures Hit Record
May 20, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: Paid Vacation Bill Goes To The Hill
May 19, 2009 (John Schmitt)

Uprising Radio: New Efforts to Expand American Vacation and Sick Leave
May 19, 2009

Huffington Post: U.S. Sick Leave Policy Makes Nation More Vulnerable To Swine Flu
May 19, 2009

FOX Business: TARP's Evolving Legacy
May 18, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Boston Globe: Geithner Gains Currency
May 17, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Real News Network: Borrowing Into Submission?
May 16, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Charleston Gazette: Study Shows Workers Gain From Unionization
May 16, 2009 (John Schmitt)

Plain Dealer (OH): How About a Bailout for Social Security?
May 16, 2009 

New York Times: Bill Would Guarantee Up to 7 Paid Sick Days
May 15, 2009

Inter Press Service: IMF Using Global Crisis to "Re-Launch" Itself
May 15, 2009 (Deborah James)

Mother Jones: Next Up: The Battle Over Wall Street Reform
May 13, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Buffalo News: U.S. Plan is to fix, not Run, Companies
May 10, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Job Losses Slow in April, but the Toll is Still Heavy
May 9, 2009 (Dean Baker)

American Prospect: A Stalled Counterrevolution
May 8, 2009 (Dean Baker)

New York Times: U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 8.9%, but Pace of Losses Eases
May 8, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Washington Independent: Risky Mortgage Program Resurfaces in Congress
May 8, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: Treasury Department Insists It Can Recycle Bailout Money
May 8, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: Timothy Geithner's Bailout Dollar Recycling May Be Illegal
May 7, 2009 (Dean Baker) 

PBS NewsHour: 'Stress Tests' Put Credibility of Banks, Regulators Back in Spotlight
May 7, 2009 (Interview with Dean Baker) 

Marketplace (American Public Media): Let Some Big Banks Fail!
May 7, 2009 (Interview with Dean Baker)

CNBC: Should Government Fire Bank CEOs?
May 7, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

The Young Turks: Dean Baker Discusses the Financial Crisis
May 5, 2009 (Dean Baker) 

Huffington Post: Foreclosure: In The Midst Of Crisis, No Reliable Data
May 6, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: Six Steps To Dis-Empowering Wall Street
May 6, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Hill: Bernanke Confident Ahead of Stress Tests
May 5, 2009 (Dean Baker)

CNBC: Stress Test Results Won't End The Uncertainty Over Banks
May 5, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: Creditors May Have Pushed For Chrysler Bankruptcy To Rake In Bailout Cash
May 5, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Lancaster Eagle-Gazette (PA): Dreams of a Multi-Polar World? Be Careful What You Wish For
May 5, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Indianapolis Star: Plunder and Blunder
May 4, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Roll Call: EFCA is a Priority for Many Civil Rights Leaders
April 30, 2009

The Australian: The Monthly's Success Up to Me: Magazine Publisher
April 30, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Washington Post: U.S. in Control: Its Goal to Fix, Not Run Firms
April 29, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Observer (Uganda): It’s Time for Home-Grown Policies
April 29, 2009 (Ha-Joon Chang)

Alternet: We Need to Make Good Jobs Out of "Green Jobs"
April 29, 2009 (Dean Baker)

NPR: Thoroughly Modern Marx
April 29, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Savannah Morning News (GA): Savannah's Housing Not Affordable for Many, Study Shows
April 29, 2009 (Dean Baker)

CNBC: Optimism About US Economy May Be Wishful Thinking: Panel
April 28, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Progressive: The Meaning of Arlen Specter's Party Switch
April 28, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Observer (UK): Can the IMF Now Feed the World?
April 26, 2009
(Mark Weisbrot)

The Telegraph (UK): US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Says He is "Encouraged" by Slowdown in Recession
April 25, 2009
(Mark Weisbrot)

Daytona Beach News-Journal: Renters Find Affordable Housing Scarce
April 25, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Columbus Dispatch (OH): Avoiding Cuts at All Costs
April 25, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Marketplace (American Public Media): Scrutinizing the Role of the IMF
April 24, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

The Post (Zambia): ‘IMF still prescribing harmful policies’
April 24, 2009(Mark Weisbrot)

Inter Press Service: Struggle to Solve Crisis Moves to IMF, World Bank
April 24, 2009

Washington Times: IMF Eases Limits on Loans
April 24, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

BBC: The International Monetary Fund Returns
April 24, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

San Diego Union-Tribune: Default Notices Hit Record in County
April 23, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Peninsula Clarion (AK): Labor, Business Spar Over Free Choice Act
April 23, 2009 (John Schmitt)

News & Observer (NC): House Panel Airs Bad Loans Bill
April 23, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Politico: Arena: Climate Change Legislation?
April 23, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Deutsche Presse-Agentur: IMF Set for Huge Expansion as World Finance Ministers Meet
April 23, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Politico: Before King, Obama's Base was Laid
April 23, 2009
(John Schmitt)

The Morning Show (KPFA, 94.1 FM CA): April 22, 2009
April 22, 2009 (Dean Baker)

VOA: IMF Enters Spring Meetings Full of G20 Cash 
April 22, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Politico: Arena: Is This a Good or Bad Year for Immigration Reform?
April 21, 2009 (Dean Baker)

CNN Money: Worst-Case Scenario Survival Guide
April 20, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Financial Times: US Cannot Rely on Inventory Cycle to Lead Way to Recovery
April 20, 2009 (Eileen Appelbaum)

Between the Lines: Obstacles Stand in Way of Thaw in U.S. - Cuban and Venezuelan Relations
April 20, 2009 (Interview with Mark Weisbrot)

Asheville Citizen-Times (NC): Study: Rental Housing Is ‘Out of Reach' for Many
April 19, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Louisville Courier-Journal (KY): Renters Struggling in Tough Economy
April 19, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Dallas Morning News: Sure You Want to Be a Homeowner?
April 17, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Minnesota Public Radio: Obama Voices Cautious Optimism on the Economy
April 17, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Xinhua: Port of Spain Braces for Americas Summit
April 17, 20009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Foster's Daily Democrat (NH): Report: Home Foreclosures Put Pressure on Availability of Affordable Rental Units
April 16, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Salon.com: The Prophets of Doom
April 16, 2009 (Dean Baker)

CQ Politics: Time to Re-read the Economic Tea Leaves 
April 16, 2009
(Dean Baker)

Politico: Arena: Is Obama a Polarizing President?
April 16, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Diane Rehm Show (NPR): State of the U.S. Economy
April 15, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Politico: Arena: One Change in the American Tax System
April 15, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Metro Times (MI): Hard Times
April 15, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Progressive: Obama's Speech on the Economy Falls Flat
April 14, 2009 (Dean Baker)

CNBC: Abolishing the Income Tax?
April 14, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Forbes: U.S. Cities Where It's Hardest To Get By
April 14, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Connecticut Post: Rents Unaffordable, Especially in Fairfield County
April 14, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Time Magazine: Goldman's Profits: Gambling with Taxpayer Money?
April 14, 2009 (Dean Baker)

CNBC: Affordability Not Improving for Renters Nationwide
April 14, 2009 (Dean Baker)

St. Petersburg Times (FL): Cuba Likely to Dominate Obama's Attention at Summit of the Americas
April 14, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Daily News (CA): Roommates Become a Necessity for Some
April 14, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Hour (CT): Stamford-Norwalk Region Most Expensive for Renters in Country
April 14, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Politico: Arena: The Administration's Policy Shift on Cuba: Too Far, Too Little, Just Right?
April 14, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Democracy Now!: Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Health Care, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire
April 13, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Talk of the Nation (NPR): Bailout Bonds: Should Small Investors Buy In?
April 13, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Wisconsin State Journal: Jobless Spike Should Scare Obama
April 13, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Uprising Radio (KPFK, 90.7 FM L.A.): Is Social Security Under Threat Again?
April 13, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Work with Marty Nemko (KALW, CA): Will Obamanomics Work?
April 12, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Los Angeles Times: HUD's Dollar Homes Falls Short of Mission
April 12, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Daily Herald (WA): Property in Mexico Remains a Safe Investment
April 12, 2009

UPI: HUD Program Benefits Investors, Others
April 12, 2009 (Dean Baker)

San Francisco Chronicle: Economists Split Over Timing of Recovery
April 10, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Wall Street Journal: Obama for Change (In Your Mortgage)
April 9, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Beverly Hills Times: Tax The Speculators
April 9, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Laura Flanders Show (Grit TV): Inland Empire: Warehouse Workers Organize in California
April 9, 2009 (Dean Baker)

San Francisco Chronicle: Why Workers Need the Employee Free Choice Act 
April 9, 2009

Politico: Arena: On the Conservative Critique of Obama's European Visit
April 9, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Houston Chronicle: Unionization Substantially Raises Wages of Pennsylvania Service-Sector Workers
April 8, 2009

Business Standard (India): The Perfidious Myths of Free Trade
April 8, 2009 (Ha-Joon Chang)

Huffington Post: Geithner Bank Plan Faces New Wave Of Criticism
April 8, 2009 (Dean Baker)

The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC, 93.9 FM): Road to Recovery?
April 8, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: How Unions' Grass-Roots Organizing, Pragmatism Can Pass Pro-Labor Bill
April 8, 2009 (John Schmitt)

Politico: Arena: Grade the President's Trip
April 7, 2009 (Dean Baker)

CNBC: Breaking the Banks
April 6, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Salon.com: A Message War the Republicans Won
April 6, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: Whoops: Economic Forecast Wrong Within Weeks
April 6, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Associated Press: Some Business Make Layoffs the Last Option
April 6, 2009 (Dean Baker)

New Statesman (UK): How Global Influence Has Shifted
April 6, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

The Day (CT): Better Wages, Benefits Will Come With Free Choice Act
April 5, 2009 

Sacremento Bee: Billionaire Buffett Benefits from Bailout He Promoted
April 5, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Newsday: Economic Bust Takes Wind out of Baby Boomers' Sails
April 4, 2009 (David Rosnick)

TNG Real Estate Radio Show (KTIE 590 AM, CA): Interview with David Rosnick
April 4, 2009

New York Times: No End in Sight to Job Losses; 663,000 More Cut in March
April 3, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Congress Blog (The Hill): The Big Question: England vs. China
April 3, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Counterspin (FAIR): Mark Weisbrot on the G20
April 3, 2009

BBC: Martha Kearney's Week
April 3, 2009 (Ha-Joon Chang)

Seattle Times: Employee Free Choice Act is Overdue
April 3, 2009

Mmegi (Botswana): IMF Policies Have Failed - Experts
April 2, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot, Ha-Joon Chang)

Washington Independent: Fannie, Freddie Quietly Lift Moratorium on Foreclosures
April 2, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Laura Flanders Show (Grit TV): Labor and Capital at the G-20, The Good Negro, and Have Anti-War Voices Gone Silent?
April 1, 2009 Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: Bank Rescue 2.0: Treasury Could Dump Toxic Assets Online
April 1, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Huffington Post: GOP Budget Plan Assumes Americans Would Choose Higher Tax Rate
April 1, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Forum With Michael Krasny (KQED FM 88.5): Great Expectations -- The G20 Meeting
April 1, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Politico: Arena: On Obama in Europe
April 1, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Public Service Review: What Can Be Done to Avoid Protectionism in the Credit Crunch?
April 1, 2009 (Ha-Joon Chang)


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