Publications by Christian E. Weller
Report
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Jan. 14, 2004 | The commission’s straw man: Social Security well prepared for retirement of baby boomers in 2016
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April 17, 2003 | Retirement made riskier
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Jan. 1, 2003 | Smoothing the Waves of the Perfect Storm: Could Changes in Pension Funding Rules Ease the Burden for Pension Funds?
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Jan. 1, 2003 | PURE: A Proposal for More Retirement Income Security
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Oct. 1, 2002 | How not to stimulate the economy
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Sept. 1, 2002 | Reining in exchange rates | EPI
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Aug. 1, 2002 | Retirement out of reach: Financial markets will not generate adequate retirement income for average
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April 1, 2002 | Banking on multinationals: Increased competition from large foreign lenders threatens domestic banks
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March 4, 2002 | The Shape of Fiscal Stimulus: Spending vs. Tax Cuts
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March 1, 2002 | Social Security shortfall long way off
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Jan. 1, 2002 | Political freedom, external liberalization and financial stability
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Jan. 1, 2002 | The Recent Stock Market Fluctuations and Retirement Income Adequacy
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Jan. 1, 2002 | Biting the Hand that Fed It: Did the Stock Market Boom of the Late 1990s Impede Investment in Manufacturing?
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Jan. 1, 2002 | Policy on the Margin: Evaluating the Impact of Margin Debt Requirements on Stock Valuations
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Jan. 1, 2002 | The Long and Short of It: Global Liberalization, Poverty and Inequality
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Dec. 31, 2001 | What drives the Fed to act?
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Dec. 1, 2001 | Undermining Social Security with private accounts: Commission’s final proposals would lower living standards without fixing shortfall
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Oct. 1, 2001 | Prosperity wasn’t just around the corner: Signs indicate weakening economic performance before Septe
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Oct. 1, 2001 | The unremarkable record of liberalized trade: After 20 years of global economic deregulation, poverty and inequality are as pervasive as ever
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Sept. 1, 2001 | Addressing the Nation’s Needs: A Plan for Emergency Relief and Economic Stimulus
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Aug. 1, 2001 | Shortchanging the next generation
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June 1, 2001 | You’re in good hands with Social Security: But Privatization Proposals Would Unravel Its Ability to Insure Against Loss of Income, Disability, and Death
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May 1, 2001 | What the market crash means for your retirement
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March 1, 2001 | Bush’s Fuzzy Surpluses- Tax Cuts Based on CBO’s 10-year Predictions are a Gamble the Economy Can’t R
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March 1, 2001 | Trust funds’ rainy day postponed, again
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Oct. 1, 2000 | Raising the Retirement Age: The wrong direction for Social Security
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May 1, 2000 | The Perils of Privatization: Bush’s lethal plan for Social Security
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April 1, 2000 | Getting better all the time: Social Security’s ever-improving future
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April 1, 2000 | Banking on multinationals: Increased competition from large foreign lenders threatens domestic banks
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April 1, 2000 | Meltzer report misses the mark: Commission’s recommendations for World Bank, IMF need further consid
Economic snapshot
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Oct. 15, 2003 | Lack of investment stalls recovery
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Aug. 6, 2003 | Not all recessions are equal
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July 29, 2003 | Pension funding hit hard by new proposal
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July 23, 2003 | Older workers staying in the labor force
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July 16, 2003 | Medicating the elderly into poverty?
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July 9, 2003 | Would-be retirees working longer for insurance benefits
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July 2, 2003 | Cutting U.S. interest rates would give the European economy room to breathe
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June 25, 2003 | Trouble in the housing market
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April 21, 2003 | Past as prologue: Postwar recessions
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April 18, 2003 | War anxiety and the struggling economy
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Oct. 23, 2002 | Shaken confidence—declining investment
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Sept. 26, 2002 | Traditional banks benefit from stock market tumult
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Aug. 7, 2002 | Back to the future for investment spending?
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June 5, 2002 | Retirement nest egg grows only for wealthiest
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May 29, 2002 | Retirement income adequacy falls
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May 22, 2002 | Slow growth for pension coverage
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April 10, 2002 | Consumer debt defaults, delinquency on the rise
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Feb. 13, 2002 | Consumption and economic growth
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Feb. 6, 2002 | What if Enron workers had traded Social Security for stock?
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Jan. 29, 2002 | More customers, not more cash
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Jan. 9, 2002 | What happened with the rebate checks?
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Oct. 31, 2001 | Comparing recessionary trends
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June 20, 2001 | Interest rates—the long and the short of it
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April 11, 2001 | Low balling Social Security’s future
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April 4, 2001 | The stock market correction and the resilient U.S. dollar
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March 28, 2001 | Reverberations of a declining stock market
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Nov. 15, 2000 | Taking stock of the options
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Sept. 27, 2000 | The budget surplus and business investment
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Aug. 2, 2000 | Profit rates remain at record high
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May 3, 2000 | Multinational banks and developing countries
Economic Indicators
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April 25, 2003 | GDP Picture
Book
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May 24, 2005 | Retirement Income: The Crucial Role of Social Security
Commentary
Aug. 26, 2003 | Beware allowing employers to reduce benefits and break promises about future payments
July 15, 2003 | Testimony on Bush administration’s proposal to change funding rules for pension plans
April 10, 2002 | Learning Lessons From the 1990s: Long-Term Growth Prospects for the U.S.
March 4, 2002 | How Does He Want to Pay For It?—Viewpoints | EPI
March 4, 2002 | What the Grown-ups Should do About Social Security—Viewpoints | EPI
March 4, 2002 | Are the Economic Warning Signals Flashing Yellow?