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Debate: Deficit Distraction Disorder

(Dec. 3) -- When the school is on fire and the kids are still in the classrooms, you don't debate the color to paint the cafeteria, unless of course you're a Washington insider. We are experiencing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Almost 15 million people are unemployed, 9 million are working part...

No One Should Have Been Surprised by the Plunge in Home Sales

(Aug. 25) -- Whenever there's housing news, I turn to economist Dean Baker, one of the few to foresee the housing bubble, for insight. He takes issue with this sentence from today's Washington Post story: "Analysts had expected sales to decline following the expiration of a federal tax credit for homebuyers this spring,...

Background on center for economic and policy research

The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) is an American progressive economic policy think-tank based in Washington, DC, founded in 1999. CEPR works on Social Security, the US housing bubble, developing country economies (particularly Latin America), and gaps in the social policy fabric of the US economy.

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