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

States Could Save $1.7 Billion Per Year with Federal Financing of Work Sharing
May 2012, Dean Baker and Nicole Woo

First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit
April 2012, Dean Baker

The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth
March 2012, Dean Baker and Helene Jorgensen

Long-Term Hardship in the Labor Market
March 2012, John Schmitt and Janelle Jones

It's So Hard to Get Good Help
February 2012, Dean Baker

Op-Eds & Columns

If Facebook Falls on Its Face
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 22, 2012

Mortgage and Securitization Fraud: Where’s the Task Force?
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 21, 2012

Tax Plan Attacked by Big Business
Eileen Appelbaum
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), May 15, 2012

Deficit Reduction: The Great Distraction
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 14, 2012

The Human Disaster of Unemployment
Dean Baker and Kevin Hassett
The New York Times, May 12, 2012

Events

After Austerity

Recovering from the Bubble Economy: Jobs, Wages and Unemployment

99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It

Need or Greed: Who's Responsible for the Global Economic Collapse?

How Does the Global Economy Impact WIC?

Where the Jobs Are: Employment Trends and Analysis

Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers

Rebuilding the Middle Class

Looking Ahead: State Leaders, National Experts Separate Fact From Fiction on Public Pensions

Unemployed, Not Undeserving: Asian Americans, Unemployment, & Job Creation

Press Releases

The Billion Dollar Question: What is the Impact of Private Equity on Workers and Companies?
May 14, 2012

Work Sharing Could Save States $1.7 Billion Per Year
May 8, 2012

First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit was Temporary Fix At Best
April 18, 2012

New Calculator Shows Long-Run Deficit is Entirely Due to Health Care Costs
April 5, 2012

Bank of America Tests Right to Rent
March 23, 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