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where's Schneiderman's mortgage fraud task force? cepr.net/index.php/blog… about 1 hour ago via web
#WAPO is upset that reducing government waste will cost jobs cepr.net/index.php/blog… about 5 hours ago via web
Robert Samuelson on Jamie Dimon's bad bet cepr.net/index.php/blog… about 5 hours ago via web
#WAPO has never heard of #PaulKrugman. Says austerity critics never say where money would come from cepr.net/index.php/blog… about 5 hours ago via web
#WAPO yet again says that Spain and Ireland were overspending even though they had large budget surpluses cepr.net/index.php/blog… about 5 hours ago via web
#WAPO bemoans the elimination of government waste cepr.net/index.php/blog… about 23 hours ago via web
#fiscalsummit sounds like China bashing fest -- the absurdity is the threat to stop buying U.S. bonds is EXACTLY what we ask them to do. about 23 hours ago via web
#PeterPeterson deficit fest distracts from the country's real problems huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/def… 4:39 AM May 15th via web
NYT thinks that there is too little trading on Wall Street cepr.net/index.php/blog… 4:38 AM May 15th via web
#DavidBrooks is unhappy that politicians and podiatrists are not philosophers cepr.net/index.php/blog… 4:37 AM May 15th via web
#WAPO doesn't know about the European Central Bank cepr.net/index.php/blog… 4:36 AM May 15th via web
The Pirate Party gets it right in going after copyright aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio… 4:35 AM May 15th via web
The Pirate Party is raising the right questions. it's time to rethink copyrights aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio… 6:29 PM May 14th via web
It's Deficit Fest Week, Peter Peterson's great extravaganza. It will take your mind off the country's real problems huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/def… 6:25 PM May 14th via web
#WAPO has not heard about the Fed. If it had, it wouldn't make silly comparisons between Spain and U.S. cepr.net/index.php/blog… 5:30 AM May 14th via web
AP has decided that the military cuts in the sequester are "crippling" cepr.net/index.php/blog… 5:29 AM May 14th via web
CEPR's health care budget calculator makes it to the #NYT in Nancy Folbre's blognote economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/def… 5:29 AM May 14th via web
The problem of long-term unemployment (with Kevin Hassett) nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opi… 1:03 PM May 13th via web
France's 35-hour workweek is "much criticized" in the #WAPO cepr.net/index.php/blog… 5:19 AM May 9th via web
NYT tells us that Germans are made at logic, they think they are mad at Greece, but they really are mad at logic cepr.net/index.php/blog… 5:19 AM May 9th via web

Name Dean Baker
Location Washington, DC
Web http://www.cepr.net
Bio I am an economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. I also run the blog Beat the Press (@beat_the_press)