CEPR in the News: October - December 2009
CEPR in the News: October - December 2009 |
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October - December 2009 Boston Globe: Foreclosure Worm Way into Tony Towns Miami Herald: Honduras' Business Leaders Hope Elections Restore Investors' Faith Heise (Germany): In Hungary the Financial Crisis Has Picked Up a Second Wind Stabroek News (Guyana): Financing Economic Development: The State Development Bank Option Financial Times: US Healthcare Reform Battle Not Over CNBC: Man of the Year? More Like Senate's New Whipping Boy Viet Nam News: Productivity Growth Core of Strategy Human Resources Executive Online: Women Reshape Union Agenda Los Angeles Times: Are We Being Shortchanged by TARP Repayments? Christian Science Monitor: Obama Can Create Jobs by Modeling Two Good Ideas KUOW (94.9 FM Seattle): How's the Economy? Jamaica Gleaner: Why Jamaica Won't Grow Baltimore Sun: More Area Homes Change Hands - But at Lower Prices Huffington Post: Caught in the Storm - We Need a Safety Net Common Dreams: Kucinich Challenges Linking Unemployment Benefits to War Spending: 'War Spending Will Cost 2 million Jobs' MarketWatch: FlashForward: What Obama's Sellout Costs Us Russia Today: “US – Bolivia relations to warm under Evo Morales” BBC: Bolivian President to Deepen Social Revolution Politico: Strange Coalition Targets Ben Bernanke Strategy Sessions (KPFK, 90.7 FM L.A): Interview with Rebecca Ray on Bolivia TIME: Morales' Big Win: Voters Ratify His Remaking of Bolivia Inter Press Service: A Lost Decade for the WTO? Wall Street Journal: The White House Works It Bloomberg: Bolivia’s Morales Plans to Tighten Grip on Economy After Vote Reuters: Wall Street Tax Has "Great Deal of Merit" - Pelosi Reuters: Obama Shifts White House Spotlight to Unemployment NPR: Does Creating Jobs Mean Creating More Debt? The Guardian (UK): Leading American Economists Back Campaign for 'Tobin Tax' New York Daily News: Tragedy of Honduras Appears Lost in News of Troop Escalation in Afghanistan Washington Post: Time for More Stimulus Huffington Post: No Easy Jumpstart To Get Small Business Hiring Again The Berkeley Daily Planet (CA): Dispatches from the Edge: A Coup at Foggy Bottom IndustryWeek: Report: Unions Trend Toward Female Majority Politico: Bernie Sanders' Block Ups Stakes for Fed Washington Times (DC): Fed's Withdrawal from Housing Threatens Growth Truthout: As Treasury Department Stumbles, Liberals Push Tougher Measures to Stem Foreclosures Omaha World-Herald (NE): ‘He-cession' Reshuffles Roles Alternet: How One Journalist Learned About Modern Union-Busting the Hard Way USA Today: Americans' Tax Burden is Lightest in Developed World Los Angeles Times: September's Weak Gain in Home Prices Could be Ominous Truthout: Elizabeth Warren Warns: Taxpayers Are "Involuntary Investors" in "Shaky" Banks, Risk-Taking Firms Daily Finance: House of Cards: Home Prices May be Headed Back Down Bangor Daily News (ME): Bad Times Could Get Worse for Obama Miami Herald: Critics Dismiss Honduran Election -- Even Before First Vote Has Been Cast Nightly Business Report (PBS): HP Results, Home Sales, & Careers The Guardian (UK): Tobin Tax Advocates Pile Pressure on US Huffington Post: Democrats Contemplate Direct Government Hiring Huffington Post: US Debt A 'Phantom Menace,' Krugman Argues Washington Independent: Long-Term Job Losses Demand Large-Scale Fix Atlantic Wire (The Atlantic): Economists Hit Back at Alarmism Over the Debt Meridian Star (MS): Extended Homebuyer Credits and Jobless Benefits New America Media: 'Bipartisan' Purple Dogs Go Rogue with 'Task Force' on Social Security, Medicare Reuters: Honduras Coup Tensions Take Toll on Economy Salon.com: The Washington Establishment Suffers a Serious Defeat Washington Independent: Renters ‘Lost in the Shuffle’ in Anti-Foreclosure Efforts Daily Finance: TARP Saved the Banking System, but Failed at Everything Else Atlantic Wire (The Atlantic): House Nails Fed with an Audit Los Angeles Times: Housing Starts Dive 10.6% in the U.S., 8.5% in the West USA Today: Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms Dow Jones Newswires: Economists Criticize TARP Management To Congressional Panel CNN Money: Is TARP Bailout Helping the Economy? Huffington Post: Smaller Banks May Be Forced to Subsidize "Too Big to Fail" Huffington Post: Women to Be Majority in Labor Union Movement, So Here's the Job Ahead HousingWire.com: Moody's Economist: Banks 'Overcapitalized' after TARP Forbes: Renting From Fannie Mae GRIT TV: Changing the Jobs Debate ThomasNet: How Union Membership Has Changed Over 25 Years Daily Finance: Housing Outlook: Slower Sales, Falling Prices, More Foreclosures Online Financial News: The Blogs: Geithner's CDS Blunder Huffington Post: Protestors to Goldman Sachs: "You Are Not God" - Bernanke Explains Why AlterNet: Why Won't Obama Give You a Job? Atlantic Wire (The Atlantic): China's Hand in America's Economy The Hill: Dems Push Plan to Subsidize Lost Hours Financial Post: Europe is Not Sick Lansing State Journal (MI): Women Changing the Face of Labor SmartMoney: Refresh Your Financial Life: Real Estate Washington Post: That Upward Stock Market Arrow May Be About to Burst Your Balloon Detroit Free Press: More Than 6 People Out of Work Compete for Each Opening New York Times: Week in Review: Prime Number New York Times: Free to Lose Time: Renting Your House Back: A Solution to Foreclosures? CentralJersey.com: In Times of Need, Help Fill Local Pantries' Shelves U.S. News & World Report: What Job Seekers Can Expect in 2010 Chicago Tribune: Retailers Hint at Better Times Ahead Financial Post: U.S. Senate Targets Bigger Banks with Increased Scrutiny Modesto Bee (CA): The Buzz on Business San Francisco Chronicle: Legitimized Leasebacks Picking up Momentum San Francisco Chronicle: Report Offers Snapshot of Union Labor Today New York Times: Survey Finds Deep Shift in the Makeup of Unions Associated Press: Women on Pace to be Majority of Union Workers Financial Post: Dodd Proposes Sweeping Financial Overhaul The Ledger (FL): More Women in Unions Indiana Daily Student: Paying the Unemployed CNBC: Trader Tax Sound Off Atlanta Journal - Constitution: Jobless Rate in Double- Digits for the First Time Since '83 Washington Post: Why Won't Obama Give You A Job? Washington Post: Nation's Jobless Rate Tops 10 Percent Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA): Santa Cruz Borrowers May Not Benefit from Fannie Mae's Deed for Lease New York Times: U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years Reuters: Honduras Pact Crumbles Over Unity Government Inter Press Service: Honduras: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead" Wall Street Journal: Fannie to Rent to Owners in Foreclosure The Progressive: Obama Needs a Full-Employment Policy Mother Jones: Is Congress Creating Another Housing Bubble? Marketplace (American Public Media): Unemployment Rate Highest Since 1983 The Oregonian: U.S. Unemployment Rate Tops 10%, 26-year High ConsumerAffairs.com: Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2 Percent In October ITN: US Jobless Rate 'To Hit Double Figures' Fox Business: Monday Morning Quarterbacking the Financial Crisis Insighters (KPFK, 90.7 FM L.A): Interview With Mark Weisbrot on Bolivia (Mark joins the program at 28:30) Los Angeles Times: Senate Extends Home-Buyer Tax Credit and Jobless Aid Reuters: Fannie Mae Program to Turn Homeowners into Renters The Hill: Dems Poised to Move $33B in Business Tax Credits from Stimulus MarketWatch: From Homeowner to Tenant Chicago Tribune: Poverty and Disability Greatly Correlated, New Study Shows The Hill: Key Advisor Turns Attention to Grappling with Growing Concerns over Deficit Atlantic Wire (The Atlantic): Why Is the House Financial Reform Bill Stalling? American Prospect: The Myth of Too Big to Fail WROI, 92.1 FM NY: Interview with Mark Weisbrot Pensions and Investments: Execs Fighting Transaction Tax UTV: Breaking Up the Banks Is Hard to Do Salon.com: Bad News: Obama Wants to "Get Serious" on Deficit SmartMoney: 6 Signs Your Home Will Increase in Value KPFK, 90.7 FM L.A: Interview With Mark Weisbrot on Honduras KPFA, 94.1 FM CA: Crisis in Honduras Financial Times: Democrats Unveil Healthcare Bill to Cover 36m Uninsured Inter Press Service: Obama Scores Regional Points with Zelaya's Return In These Times: Where Credit is Due: Tax Breaks to Spur Hiring? Montreal Gazette: U.S. Slays Recession Monster BBC News: Obama Welcomes US Economic Growth Irish Examiner: US Recession Set to End Today Huffington Post: Too Big to Fail, Too Small to Survive The Hill: Senators Announce Deal to Extend and Expand Homebuyer Tax Credit Salon.com: What's So Bad About Paid Sick Days? Inter Press Service: IMF Has Long Way to Go – Even After "Istanbul Decisions" AFP: US Rebounds from Recession PBS NewsHour: Crackdown Targets Banks Deemed 'Too Big to Fail' Examiner.com: Hurt Pride: Mortgage Bankers Group Forced to Sell Headquarters NPR: The Problem Of Deciding Who Is 'Too Big To Fail' Brattleboro Reformer (VT): Medi-Scare Sacramento Press (CA): Life After Layoff: Two Sacramento Reporters Speak Out CNN: American Morning New York Post: Banks Profit on Handouts The Market Oracle: The Global Debt Crisis is Destroying the Economic Structure Miami Herald: Federal Reserve's Tough Stance on Banks May Signal New Era Reuters: Behind the Fed's Move to Regulate Wall Street Pay McClatchy Newspapers: Are Fed, Treasury Finally Giving Banks Tough Love? Salon.com: Washington Cuts Wall Street's Allowance The Pitt News: Students, Experts Discuss One-Year Anniversary of Recession's Beginning Yahoo! Finance: Is Homebuyer Credit Worth an Extension? MSN Money: Get Into a House for Just 3.5% Down GQ: The Fifty Most Powerful People in D.C. CNBC: Time for Windfall Tax on TARP Banks? Huffington Post: Bush TARP Head: Obama Picking Up Where We Left Off AllBusiness: Feds Feed New Market for Easy Mortgages USA Today: FDIC Chief: Small Banks Can't Compete with Bailed-out Giants Salon.com: Why George Will Shouldn't be Mocking the Stimulus BusinessWeek: The Recession Goes to School Washington Times: Easy-Money Mortgages Still Provided, by the Feds Time: Is the U.S. Softening Its Opposition to the Honduras Coup? SmallBiz: Does Small Business Have Enough Friends in D.C.? Inter Press Service: IMF Rebuts Critical Report on Lending Huffington Post: Where's the Reporting On the Fraud That Led to the Economic Collapse? CNN Money: Push on to Expand $8,000 Tax Credit Baltimore Chronicle: Reviewing Danny Schechter's "The Crime of Our Time" Washington Independent: Are We Facing a Jobless Recovery? In These Times: How to Create New Jobs Now—and Why Nightly Business Report (PBS): The First Time Homebuyers Credit May Need an Extension Mother Jones: Bank Buster Associated Press: Home Sweet Home Investment? Sure, in the Long Run Los Angeles Times: FHA May Be Setting Up Repeat of Housing Bubble, Lawmakers Worry Slate: The Obama Recession Baltic Times (Latvia): Currency Peg to Blame for Worsening Economy, Says Cordero The National (U.A.E.): IMF Opens Lending Taps to Boost World Economy Globe and Mail: A Tale of Two Recoveries U.S. News & World Report: Can the Broken Job Market Be Fixed? Washington Independent: Lagging Economic Indicator Sets Up 2010 GOP Rhetoric Washington Times: Inside Politics FOX Business: The Employment Numbers that Count Forbes: Where Americans Pay Most to Live Marketplace (American Public Media): Just Don't Call it Another Stimulus Plan Democracy Now!: A Hidden $34 Billion Bank Subsidy? AFP: IMF Loans Could Worsen Crisis: Think Tank Business Insider: New Report Crucifies IMF For Mismanaging The Crisis Inter Press Service: IMF Loan Policies Worsening Crisis, NGOs Say Jamaica Gleaner: IMF Warning - US Think Tank Says Most Countries Worse Off After IMF Agreement Bloomberg: Obama Weighs Spending to Stem Job Cuts Without Second Stimulus The Telegraph (UK): Banks Brace for Latvia's Collapse The Telegraph (UK): IMF Aid Conditions Risked Deepening Financial Crisis in Some Countries, Says CEPR Study The Guardian (UK): IMF Policies Deepened Financial Crisis, Says CEPR Indianapolis Star: Poverty Plagues the Disabled NPR: Recession Lesson: Consumers Shift Toward Saving New York Times: The Cost of Saving These Whales Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Jobless Losing Streak Goes On New York Times: Jobless Report Is Worse Than Expected; Rate Rises to 9.8% Mother Jones: Chris Dodd's Extreme Makeover SmartMoney: Unemployment at 9.8%: What Can Create Jobs? 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