Are We Really Nostalgic for the Great Depression?Source: cepr.net
The Washington policy debates of the last week would almost make a casual observer believe that the nation's political leadership is in fact nostalgic for the good old days of the Great Depression when the country suffered double-digit unemployment for a decade.
The Solution to the Budget DeficitSource: cepr.net
Peter Peterson is coming to get your Social Security and Medicare. Peterson was the Commerce Secretary in the Nixon administration. He then went on to make billions of dollars as one of the top executives at the Blackstone Group, a private equity fund. Mr.

Assuming your house is paid for, the decline in the housing market does not affect your life. But for everyone else, taking stock of your home's lower valuation tends to bring a change in lifestyle.
Big Rate Cuts and Fiscal Stimulus: Are We "All Keynesians Now?"Source: cepr.net
It was 1971 when Richard Nixon, a conservative, uttered the famous phrase "We are all Keynesians Now. " But there was a backlash soon to follow, with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher changing the world as perhaps no two other people did in the 20th century.
CSPAN Favors Conservative Think TanksSource: cepr.net
A new study has found that C-SPAN overwhelmingly favors conservative think tanks in its coverage by a three-to-one margin over all left-of-center think tanks.