March 22, 2010 Dean Baker to Discuss False Profits at Public Citizen 4:30 pm Public Citizen 1600 20th St NW Washington, D.C. 20009 Please join CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker for a discussion on his new book False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, in which he recounts the causes of the economic meltdown, dissects the government's inadequate responses to it and offers a thoughtful progressive program for rebuilding the economy and reforming the financial system.

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March 18, 2010 Dean Baker Discussing and Signing Copies of False Profits 7 pm The Regulator Bookshop 720 Ninth St Durham, NC 27705 Please join CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker for a discussion on his new book False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy. False Profits recounts the causes of the economic meltdown, dissects the government’s inadequate responses to it, and offers a thoughtful progressive program for rebuilding the economy and reforming the financial system. Event details can be found on The Regulator Bookshop's site.

 

March 16, 2010 Progressivism on Tap with Dean Baker 6 - 8 pm Busboys and Poets 1025 5th St NW Washington, D.C. 20001 Please join CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker as he discusses financial regulatory reform as part of the Center for American Progress' Progressivism on Tap series. RSVP here.

 

March 13, 2010 Dean Baker Discussing and Signing Copies of False Profits 1 pm Borders 612 E. Liberty Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Please join CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker for a discussion on his new book False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy. False Profits recounts the causes of the economic meltdown, dissects the government’s inadequate responses to it, and offers a thoughtful progressive program for rebuilding the economy and reforming the financial system.

 

March 12, 2010 Bring it Back, Take it Forward 7-10 pm University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Rackham Building 915 E. Washington St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 As part of the Bring it Back, Take it Forward conference, CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker will take part in a labor and economics panel featuring Arturo Rodriguez, Mike Hamlin and Yousef Rabhi, moderated by Rebekah Warren.

 

February 28, 2010 An Intimate Conversation with Dean Baker 7 pm George Washington University Marvin Center, Room 404 800 21st NW Washington, DC 20052 CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker took part in a discussion on his new book False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy. The event was presented by the Jewish Progressive Political Association.

 

February 9, 2010 Taxing Wall Street 9-10:30am Center for American Progress 1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor Washington, DC 20005 CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker and Michael Ettlinger (President for Economic Policy, Center for American Progress) participated in a discussion about taxing Wall Street - why we should do it, how we can, and the best options moving forward. Greg Ip (U.S. Economics Editor, The Economist) moderated.

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February 2, 2010 Downsizing the American Dream 7-9pm PST The Hammer Museum/UCLA 10899 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90024 After the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Wall Street is back but Main Street still suffers. As the divide between rich and poor in America widens, will the middle class recover or be left out as the economy is restructured? CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker and Les Leopold (director of the Labor Institute and author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity -- and What We Can Do About It) participated in a discussion sponsored by the Hammer Forum. UPDATE: Video now available.

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January 29, 2010 Union Members in 2009 and Beyond Brownbag Lunch Discussion 12-2pm Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Room 1004/06 1800 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC CEPR Senior Economist John Schmitt joined other labor force experts (James A. Walker, Economist at the BLS, and Mark Levinson, Chief Economist of SEIU) to present on recently-released data about union members in 2009, demographic trends in the unionized workforce over the last 25 years, and projections for the future. The presentations were followed by a casual brownbag lunch discussion and Q&A.

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January 28, 2010 Dean Baker Discussing and Signing Copies of False Profits 6:30 pm Busboys & Poets, Langston Room 2021 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20009 CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker discussed and signed copies of his new book, "False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy," at Busboys & Poets. False Profits recounts the causes of the economic meltdown, dissects the government’s inadequate responses to it, and offers a thoughtful progressive program for rebuilding the economy and reforming the financial system.

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