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CEPR examines the economic issues that matter to voters in this year's elections.
Economics and Elections: The Dollar Is a weak dollar bad? How does dollar policy affect trade? What is the relationship between the dollar and inflation?
Economics and the Elections: Economic Downturn How will the recession affect working America? How many people could lose their jobs? What caused the recession?
Economics and the Elections: Social Security Do we need to reform Social Security? What are the trust funds? Is Social Security running out of money?
Economics and the Elections: The War and the Recession Did the war cause the recession? How much is the war costing the nation? Does war spending provide a boost to the economy?
Real News Network: Obama and the Americas, October 22, 2008
C-SPAN: Washington Journal with Dean Baker, August 18, 2008
Bill Moyers Journal: Facing up to the Economy, August 8, 2008
Doing Time (Air America Radio): Interview with Dean Baker, July 18, 2008
KPFK: McCain and Betancourt’s Rescue, July 7, 2008
Democracy Now!: Economists Question McCain and Clinton's Gas Taxes, April 29, 2008
CBS Evening News: Bush Rebukes Recession Claims, February 28, 2008
Real News Network: Democrats on the Economy, February 22, 2008
KPFK Evening News: Economists Respond to President Bush's Stimulus Plan, January 18, 2008
CNN Radio: Recession and the Labor Market, March 13, 2008
CNBC: Abolish the Fed?, September 4, 2007
Event: Latin America in the Post-Bush Era: What Can We Expect in the Next Phase of U.S.-Latin American Relations? Discussion with Mark Weisbrot and Álvaro Vargas Llosa, May 29, 2008. Video and audio available here.
Event: U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the Post-Bush Era
Mark Weisbrot spoke on a panel with Greg Craig, a foreign policy
advisor to Senator Barack Obama; Nora Lustig, visiting Professor at the
Elliot School of International Affairs; and Mark Schneider, Senior Vice
President and Special Advisor on Latin America at the International
Crisis Group, at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George
Washington University, March 25, 2008. Video and audio available here.
Event: "Housing Crisis and Corporate Accountability" panel at Take Back America 2008.
Dean Baker spoke on a panel with Al Meyerhoff, Lisa Ransom (Vice
President of Federal Affairs for the Center for Responsible Lending
(CRL)), and Theresa DiMartino. Video of the panel discussion can be
viewed here.
Event: "The Bush Legacy: The State of our Union Then and Now" Dean Baker spoke at a forum sponsored by Americans United for Change and the Bush Legacy Project at the National Press Club in January. For photos and the speakers' Power Point presentations, see the event website.
Event: "Taming the Giant Corporation: Corporate Taxes and Double Standards" National conference on corporate accountability panel featuring Dean Baker.
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