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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 Deficit
Source: 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.

Study Details Erosion of Housing Wealth; Some Home Values Dip to 1989 Level

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.

Comparison of Ownership vs. Rental Costs Demonstrates that Rental Options Should Be a Consideration in Housing Proposals
Source: Common Dreams

As Congress debates solutions to the mortgage meltdown and ever more homeowners find themselves facing foreclosure, a report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and the National Low Income housing Coalition (NLIHC) shows that in many bubble-inflat …

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 Tanks
Source: 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.

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