CEPR's ongoing coverage of the economic crisis the United States is facing, in large part due to the collapse of the housing bubble.

In Focus

Financial Speculation Taxes (a.k.a. Financial Transacations Taxes)

Work Sharing

Right To Rent

Reports

Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: How Many Workers Would Pay More?

January 2013, Nicole Woo, Janelle Jones and John Schmitt

More Good Jobs

November 2012, Shawn Fremstad

Debt, Deficits, and Demographics: Why We Can Afford the Social Contract

November 2012, Dean Baker

Reducing Inequality and Insecurity: Rethinking Labor and Employment Policy for the 21st Century

November 2012, Eileen Appelbaum

The Problem with Structural Unemployment in the U.S.

October 2012, Dean Baker

Op-Eds & Columns

The Re-emergence of Housing Bubbles: Should We Be Worried?

Dean Baker
Project Syndicate, June 13, 2013

Time to Retire Greenspan and Trichet’s Pensions

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 3, 2013
En Español

Events

The Great Recession: The Forces that Make it Great

Equity and the Future of the American Economy

The Downturn: How We Got Here and Why it Will Be Long

The Fiscal Cliff: New Heights of Sensationalism

Community Cinema Screening of 'As Goes Janesville'

Threats to Medicare: The Election and the Lame Duck Congress

Financial Reform Summit III: "From Dodd-Frank to Occupy and Everything In Between"

Metrics of Recovery: Arizona and U.S. Housing Markets After the Bubble

After Austerity

Debts and Deficits: Combating Recession in the U.S., Latin America, and Eurozone

Press Releases

Statement on the Financial Transaction Tax and Harkin-Defazio Bill

February 28, 2013

The Effects of Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap

January 24, 2013

More Than 200,000 Petition for Paul Krugman to Be Treasury Secretary

January 7, 2013

Share of Bad Jobs Has Risen Since 1979

September 5, 2012

The Small-Dollar Loan Problem

August 29, 2012

Testimony

Testimony Before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade on "Where the Jobs Are: Employment Trends and Analysis"
February 15, 2012, House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade

No Need to Talk About Taking an Ax to Safety Net for the Poor
December 16, 2010, Dean Baker's Comments at Brookings Institution Forum

Work-Sharing: An Effective Tool Against Chronic Unemployment
March 17, 2010, Testimony of Dean Baker before the Congressional Black Caucus

The Failures of TARP
November 19, 2009, Testimony of Dean Baker Before the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program

Latest Press Hits

• Secondary Sources: House Prices, Joint Tax Filing, Yield Curve
  The Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2013


• May Jobs Report Shows Unemployment Rate Rising, Weak Labor Market
  The Inquisitr, June 11, 2013


• US Created lots of New Jobs in May (hooray!), but the Jobs Suck (boo!)
  msnNOW, June 11, 2013


• Blowing Bubbles
  Global Economic Intersection, June 08, 2013


• Economist Dean Baker: Strip Greenspan, Trichet of Their Pensions
  Money News, June 07, 2013