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

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's Greatest Hits

Bank Profits Are Up: Did You Hear Anyone Say "Thank You?"

Right To Rent Plan Offers Simple Solution to Foreclosure Crisis

Economists Who Make the Third Stimulus Honor Roll

The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble

The Tax Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise?

Will Workers Survive State Budget Belt-Tightening?

Economists' Letter to Congress in Support of a New Economic Stimulus Package

Pace of Job Loss Slows Sharply, as Unemployment Edges Down

Reports

The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession
February 2010, Dean Baker

Latvia’s Recession: The Cost of Adjustment With An “Internal Devaluation”
February 2010, Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray

Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation
January 2010, Dean Baker

The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes
December 2009, Dean Baker, Robert Pollin, Travis McArthur, and Matt Sherman

Public Investment, Industrial Policy and U.S. Economic Renewal
December 2009, Robert Pollin and Dean Baker

Op-Eds & Columns

Financial Innovation: What Is It Good For? Credit Default Swaps
Dean Baker
TPM Café, March 11, 2010

Greenspan’s Nightmare Is Much of the World’s Dream
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, March 10, 2010

Wall Street Wants a Free Lunch, Not a Free Market
Dean Baker
Boston Review, March/April 2010

It Isn’t a Financial Crisis #76,845
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 8, 2010

Robert Rubin: Why Won’t He Go Away?
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 8, 2010

Events

Taxing Wall Street

Dean Baker Discussing and Signing Copies of False Profits

The Great Recession: How We Got Here and How We Get Out

Debate Over Proposed Financial Speculation Tax

Congressional Oversight Panel to Hear from Independent Experts about TARP's Effectiveness

Protecting America from Infectious Disease

Dean Baker to Discuss his New Book

New Thinking on the Economy

Baker to Discuss 'The Great Recession'

Working for an Economy by the People, for the People!

Press Releases

Deficit Scaremongering Undermining Economic Recovery
February 16, 2010

Statement on Ben Bernanke's Re-Approval
January 28, 2010

Statement on The State of the Union Address
January 27, 2010

Financial Transactions Taxes Would Raise Billions in Revenue
December 21, 2009

Economists in Support of a Financial Transactions Tax
December 3, 2009

Other Resources

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS): Massive Job Cuts Renew Calls for Quick Action on Stimulus, January 26, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Fresh Air (NPR): Healthcare: The Key to Economic Stimulus, January 13, 2009 (Dean Baker)

New York Times: Where the Money Is, January 12, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Bloomberg: Strauss-Kahn Recasts IMF as Protector of Safety Nets for Poor, January 8, 2009 (Mark Weisbrot)

Democracy Now!: Obama Warns Trillion Dollar Deficit Could Lead to Extensive Government Budget Cuts, January 7, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Day to Day (National Public Radio): Dr. Doom Predicted the Economic Collapse, January 7, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC): Stimulus Stalled Until February?, January 6, 2009 (Dean Baker)

Morning Edition (NPR): Government Officials Go To "Bailout Well" Again, November 26, 2008 (Dean Baker)

The Morning Show (KPFA 94.1 FM): Obama`s New Economic Team, November 25, 2008 (Dean Baker)

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS): Optimistic Fiscal Team Determined to Revive Economy, November 24, 2008 (Dean Baker)

The Angie Coiro Show (Green 960 AM): Discussion of the Auto Bailout, November 24, 2008 (John Schmitt)

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS): Citigroup Averts Collapse With Government Rescue Plan, November 24, 2008 (Dean Baker)

Real News Network: The Lame Duck Economic Summit, November 14, 2008 (Mark Weisbrot)

Nightly Business Report (PBS): Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson`s New Plan for the Bailout, November 12, 2008 (Dean Baker)

ABC News: Financial Finger Pointing on Capitol Hill, October 24, 2008 (Dean Baker)

CNBC: Greenspan: Prophet to Pariah, October 23, 2008 (Dean Baker)

Media Matters (WILL): Interview with Mark Weisbrot on the Credit Crisis, October 5, 2008

Real News Network: Is the Bailout Necessary?, October 1, 2008 (Dean Baker)

Democracy Now!: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Scheer and Dean Baker on the Proposed $700 Billion Bailout of Wall Street, September 22, 2008