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Here’s to wishing you the best of luck in the birth lottery—you’re going to need it | Heather Boushey
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Here’s to wishing you the best of luck in the birth lottery you’re going to need it. January 23, 2014. Middot; by hboushey. Reposting my piece from The E. Economists are always proving things my Grandmother already knew. Today, we’re learning more about the fact that where you’re born the birth lottery matters for where you’ll end up in life. This research poses a challenge to the Great Gatsby Curve. And less economic mobility. Than most other developed nations. By Chetty and his co-authors finds that wh...
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New Paper Finds Gains from Multilateral Trade Liberalization to Be “Extremely Small” | Press Releases | Press Center | The Center for Economic and Policy Research
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CEPR: Through the Years. CEPR in the News. Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch. The World in Transition. New Paper Finds Gains from Multilateral Trade Liberalization to Be Extremely Small. CEPR in the News. New Paper Finds Gains from Multilateral Trade Liberalization to Be Extremely Small. April 22, 2015. IMF’s Own Modeling Shows Gains of About 43 Cents Per Person, Per Month, in the US. April 22, 2015. Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460. Washington, D.C. From the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Shows t...
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Dean Baker, Co-Director | Staff | About Us | The Center for Economic and Policy Research
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CEPR: Through the Years. CEPR in the News. Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch. The World in Transition. Dean Baker, Co-Director. CEPR: Through the Years. Dean Baker, Co-Director. Expertise: Housing, consumer prices, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare, trade, employment. Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better bargain for Working People. The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive. The United States Since 1980. Social Security: The Phony Crisis. With Mark Weisbrot), and.
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Testimony on Return Assumptions on New Mexico Pension Plans | Briefings/Testimony | Publications | The Center for Economic and Policy Research
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CEPR: Through the Years. CEPR in the News. Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch. The World in Transition. Testimony on Return Assumptions on New Mexico Pension Plans. Testimony on Return Assumptions on New Mexico Pension Plans. Written by Dean Baker. January 23, 2013. Testimony by CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker before a joint session of the New Mexico State Legislature labor and education committees on public pension funds. 2) There is very little downside risk to this projection. The stock market is ...
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The Gains from Trade in a New Model from the IMF: Still Very Small | Reports | Publications | The Center for Economic and Policy Research
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CEPR: Through the Years. CEPR in the News. Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch. The World in Transition. The Gains from Trade in a New Model from the IMF: Still Very Small. The Gains from Trade in a New Model from the IMF: Still Very Small. April 2015, David Rosnick. One significant result of the IMF paper is that potential gains of multilateral trade liberalization are very small even in a formal New Keynesian model incorporating economies with significant power in international markets.
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Bolivia's Economy Under Evo in 10 Graphs | The Americas Blog | Blogs | Publications | The Center for Economic and Policy Research
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CEPR: Through the Years. CEPR in the News. Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch. The World in Transition. Bolivia's Economy Under Evo in 10 Graphs. Bolivia's Economy Under Evo in 10 Graphs. Written by Jake Johnston and Stephan Lefebvre. Published: 08 October 2014. Bolivia has grown much faster over the last 8 years under President Evo Morales than in any period over the past three-and-a-half decades. Source: International Monetary Fund. 2 High Level of International Reserves:. While the business press ...
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Beat the Press: 2006-05-28
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Dean Baker's commentary on economic reporting. Escaping With the Trust Fund. Folks, I am off for a weeklong vacation. I will not be back at my blogging duties until Monday, June 12th. In the meantime, my colleagues at CEPR, Heather Boushey, David Rosnick, John Schmitt, and Mark Weisbrot will be intermittently filling in. I am sorry to leave in the middle of a lively debate on the Social Security trust fund. I am sure that there will be no difficulty reaching consensus on this issue in my absence. Of cour...
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Beat the Press: 2006-05-21
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Dean Baker's commentary on economic reporting. Do Trade Agreements Have to Be "Free". I am continually amazed by the apparent need that reporters feel to describe the trade agreements negotiated by the U.S. government as "free trade" agreements. (See the. On the Colombian elections for the current target of my wrath.) What possible additional information do reporters and editors believe that they are conveying by including the word "free? Posted by Dean Baker @ 11:18 PM. Links to this post. If I burn dow...
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Congress Weighs in on Holding IMF Accountable for Damage Caused by Failed Policies in Greece | Op-Eds & Columns | Publications | The Center for Economic and Policy Research
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CEPR: Through the Years. CEPR in the News. Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch. The World in Transition. Congress Weighs in on Holding IMF Accountable for Damage Caused by Failed Policies in Greece. The Huffington Post, July 2, 2015. View article at original source. Last Sunday, the European Central Bank (ECB) made a deliberate decision to limit Emergency Liquidity Assistance to the Greek banking system. The limit was set low enough to force - for the first time in the six years of depression that...
