- GDP Falls at a 0.9 Percent Rate, Driven by Slower Inventory Growth and Falling Housing Construction https://www.cepr.net/gdp-2022-07/ 5 comments economics
- GDP Falls at a 0.9 Percent Rate, Driven by Slower Inventory Growth and Falling Housing Construction https://www.cepr.net/gdp-2022-07/ 4 comments economy
- the Fed’s plans for aggressive rate hikes was based on a concern for a 1970s-type wage-price spiral. It is impossible to have a wage-price spiral when wage growth is slowing. https://www.cepr.net/jobs-2022-07/ 9 comments economy
- Obama is Failing Us All by Ignoring the Need for Currency Rules in TPP http://www.cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/obama-is-failing-us-all-by-ignoring-the-need-for-currency-rules-in-tpp 15 comments politics
- This minimum wage pay cut clock shows how many dollars America's minimum wage workers have lost since July 2009. Every second it shows how much more money they're losing, as long as the federal minimum wage remains stuck at $7.25. http://www.cepr.net/calculators/min_wage_flip_counter/ 215 comments politics
- David Brooks' Primitive Defense of the Rich http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-primitive-defense-of-the-rich 9 comments politics
- When It Comes to Bashing Obamacare They Just Make Things Up at the WSJ http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/when-it-comes-to-bashing-obamacare-they-just-make-things-up-at-the-wsj?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+beat_the_press+%28beat+the+press%29&utm_content=feedburner 67 comments politics
- Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment? http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf 6 comments politics
- Income Share of the Top 1 Percent, 1913-2012 (annotated) http://www.cepr.net/index.php/graphic-economics/graphic-economics/ 3 comments politics
- You Probably Didn’t Hear that Venezuela Was Again Ranked the Happiest Country in South America http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/the-americas-blog/you-probably-didnt-hear-that-venezuela-was-again-ranked-the-happiest-country-in-south-america 5 comments nottheonion
- Most U.S. Workers Likely to Lose Out from Proposed Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement, Report Finds http://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-releases/press-releases/most-us-workers-likely-to-lose-out-from-proposed-trans-pacific-trade-agreement-report-finds 7 comments politics
- Obamacare: The only real problem is political http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/the-only-real-problem-is-political 3 comments politics
- No-Vacation Nation Revisited: Out of 21 rich countries (16 European countries, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States), the US is the only country in the group that does not require employers to provide paid vacation time http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/no-vacation-nation-2013 109 comments worldnews
- Reinhart and Rogoff Trip Over Data While Attacking Krugman http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/reinhart-and-rogoff-trip-over-data-krugman?utm_source=cepr+feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+cepr+%28cepr%29&utm_content=facebook 3 comments politics
- The New York Times Runs Editorial Demanding Cuts in Social Security and Medicare in News Section http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/nyt-runs-editorial-demanding-cuts-in-social-security-and-medicare-in-news-section?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+beat_the_press+%28beat+the+press%29&utm_content=google+international 3 comments politics
- Unemployment rate, educational attainment, 2007-2013: Unemployment is proportional across all educational levels http://www.cepr.net/index.php/graphic-economics/graphic-economics/jobs-2013-05-ge 3 comments economy
- Larry Summers says Reinhart-Rogoff type mistakes are "distressingly common," then goes on to prove his point http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/larry-summers-says-that-reinhart-rogoff-type-mistakes-are-qdistressingly-commonq-then-goes-on-to-prove-his-point 12 comments politics
- How Much Unemployment Was Caused by Reinhart and Rogoff's Arithmetic Mistake? http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/how-much-unemployment-was-caused-by-reinhart-and-rogoffs-arithmetic-mistake 39 comments europe
- Thomas Friedman is once again mass marketing misinformation on economics http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/its-sunday-and-thomas-friedman-is-abusing-economics-again?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+beat_the_press+%28beat+the+press%29&utm_content=google+international 9 comments politics
- Mr. Incompetent, the Economy Wrecker Alan Greenspan, Was Central to the Formation of the Campaign to Fix the Debt http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/mr-incompetent-the-economy-wrecker-alan-greenspan-was-central-to-the-formation-of-the-campaign-to-fix-the-debt?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+beat_the_press+%28beat+the+press%29&utm_content=google+international 90 comments politics
- Lindsey Graham Commits Huge Gaffe: Shows Complete Lack of Understanding on the Budget http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/lindsey-graham-commits-huge-gaffe-shows-complete-lack-of-understanding-on-the-budget?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+beat_the_press+%28beat+the+press%29&utm_content=facebook 43 comments politics
- If the US healthcare system cost as much per person as any of the many countries with higher life expectancy than the US, we would have a budget surplus every year. Our healthcare system has a bad sucking problem. http://www.cepr.net/calculators/hc/hc-calculator.html 82 comments science
- If you consider that we could solve all our debt-issues by adopting the German model for healthcare, and at the same time, improve the quality of healthcare, why shouldn't we? http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/the-12-trillion-health-care-tax?utm_source=CEPR+feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cepr+%28CEPR%29&utm_content=Google+Reader 44 comments politics
- Romney's Medicare Voucher Plan Would Increase Costs: That's a Fact http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/medicare-vouchers-increase-costs-thats-a-fact 4 comments politics
- San Francisco's highest in the nation minimum wage has failed to increase unemployment. With a link to the research. http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-post-hopes-for-job-loss-in-san-francisco-may-be-disappointed 70 comments politics
- NPR can't find any millionaire job creators http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/where-are-the-millionaire-job-creators-npr-does-the-big-hunt?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+beat_the_press+%28beat+the+press%29 130 comments politics
- Why Does the Public Hear: "tales of six-figure pensions and public employees comfortably retiring in their early 50s"? http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-does-the-public-hear-qtales-of-six-figure-pensions-and-public-employees-comfortably-retiring-in-their-early-50sq 3 comments politics
- It’s worth asking how the proponents of deficit-reduction think that lower deficits will lead to increased growth and job creation in an economy mired in a severe slump http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/creationists-flat-earthers-and-deficit-hawks 7 comments economy
- Welcome to the second Great Depression http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/are-we-entering-the-second-great-depression 22 comments economy
- People in Washington have incredibly bad memories. The last time that the United States balanced its budget was just a decade ago. http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/boosting-the-economy-the-best-way-to-balance-the-budget 3 comments economy
- Why Does Senator McCaskill Want to Bankrupt Our Children? http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/why-does-senator-mccaskill-want-to-bankrupt-our-children 3 comments economy
- Fake Presidential Candidate Hugh Jidette, Meet Hugh Janus http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/hugh-jidette-and-hugh-janus-go-to-washington 5 comments politics
- NPR thinks cutting your your Social Security & Medicare is courageous... "It is difficult to see what it is courageous about trying to take away benefits for middle class retirees." http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/npr-does-an-editorial-for-deficit-reduction 4 comments politics
- David Broder Calls for War With Iran to Boost the Economy http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-broder-calls-for-war-with-iran-to-boost-the-economy 4 comments politics
- David Broder Calls for War With Iran to Boost the Economy http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-broder-calls-for-war-with-iran-to-boost-the-economy?sms_ss=reddit&at_xt=4ccd9e0141dbeaeb,0 5 comments politics
- why don't we increase mandatory vacation time in response to increased unemployment rates? http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/no-vacation-nation/ 5 comments politics
- Want to see how much potential GDP were losing each second thanks to 9.6% unemployment? http://www.cepr.net/index.php/graphic-economics/graphic-economics/the-cepr-recession-waste-clock 3 comments politics
- Economists Tell the Masses: "It Could Have Been Worse" http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/economists-say-it-couldve-been-worse 3 comments economy
- U.S. Deficit Calculator: Whatever you do, don't show this to conservatives http://www.cepr.net/calculators/calc_deficit.html 201 comments business
- Nationalize the Banks and Let the Bondholders (Not Taxpayers) Take The Lumps http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/getting-lehman-wrong-a-second-time/ 4 comments business