Areas of expertise
Global finance • Macro economics • Social Security • Corporate financing • Financial markets • Money and banking
Biography
Before joining the Center for American Progress in December of 2003, Christian Weller was a macro economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), 1998
M.A. Economics, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), 1993
Intermediate Exam (B.A.) Economics, University of Konstanz (Germany), 1991
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Retirement Income: The Crucial Role of Social Security
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The commission’s straw man: Social Security well prepared for retirement of baby boomers in 2016
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Lack of investment stalls recovery
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Beware allowing employers to reduce benefits and break promises about future payments
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Not all recessions are equal
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Pension funding hit hard by new proposal
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Older workers staying in the labor force
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Medicating the elderly into poverty?
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Testimony on Bush administration’s proposal to change funding rules for pension plans
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Would-be retirees working longer for insurance benefits
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Cutting U.S. interest rates would give the European economy room to breathe
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Trouble in the housing market
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GDP Picture
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Past as prologue: Postwar recessions
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War anxiety and the struggling economy
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Retirement made riskier
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Smoothing the Waves of the Perfect Storm: Could Changes in Pension Funding Rules Ease the Burden for Pension Funds?
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PURE: A Proposal for More Retirement Income Security
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Shaken confidence—declining investment
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How not to stimulate the economy
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Traditional banks benefit from stock market tumult
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Reining in exchange rates | EPI
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Back to the future for investment spending?
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Retirement out of reach: Financial markets will not generate adequate retirement income for average
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Retirement nest egg grows only for wealthiest
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Retirement income adequacy falls
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Slow growth for pension coverage
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Learning Lessons From the 1990s: Long-Term Growth Prospects for the U.S.
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Consumer debt defaults, delinquency on the rise
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Banking on multinationals: Increased competition from large foreign lenders threatens domestic banks