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• May 2, 2013 | Winning the intellectual debate on austerity while losing the policy debate

• April 30, 2013 | Why do so many people want to only pursue the expensive ways to fix job-quality?

• April 26, 2013 | (Final?) Notes on the Reinhart/Rogoff saga

• April 26, 2013 | How far from full recovery are we, Part II: Housing to the rescue?

• April 23, 2013 | How far from full labor market recovery are we? Part I

• April 18, 2013 | More on missing downward price pressure (hint, blame corporate profits)

• April 17, 2013 | A slight bit of substance on the Reinhart and Rogoff 90 percent debt threshold

• April 16, 2013 | The Reinhart and Rogoff magical 90 percent threshold loses its magic?

• April 12, 2013 | Dark Age budgeting: Social Security back on the table

• April 8, 2013 | How to stomp on promising developments in the economy: Austerity

• March 22, 2013 | Manufacturing employment: Nothing to see here, move along…

• March 22, 2013 | Aggressively targeting a full recovery is the least risky thing you can do: Back to Work Budget edition

• Jan. 30, 2013 | Today’s teachable GDP moment: Slower government spending => slower GDP growth

• Jan. 25, 2013 | When and what kind of deficit reduction matters most: The danger of aggressive 10-year deficit targets in the current budget debate

• Jan. 18, 2013 | The congressional GOP has smothered a more rapid economic recovery

• Jan. 10, 2013 | With friends like these: The carbon tax edition

• Jan. 2, 2013 | More fiscal implications of a rising capital-share of income

• Jan. 2, 2013 | So the ‘fiscal cliff’ has been addressed. The next priority should be to address the fiscal cliff.

• Dec. 21, 2012 | The 15 worst economic ideas of 2012

• Dec. 18, 2012 | If you’re writing about the ‘fiscal cliff,’ you need to read The State of Working America

• Dec. 17, 2012 | Reading the tea leaves on financial markets and fiscal austerity

• Nov. 30, 2012 | A good first step, but full recovery would still be far, far away

• Nov. 28, 2012 | True deficit hawks would be worried with jobs and recovery first

• Nov. 27, 2012 | Inequality is not just about taxes and education

• Nov. 14, 2012 | Did NAFTA raise U.S. incomes? Not for most

• Nov. 9, 2012 | Congressional Budget Office confirms EPI’s findings on the fiscal obstacle course

• Nov. 2, 2012 | GOP senators to Congressional Research Service: Research? We don’t need no stinking research

• Nov. 1, 2012 | Worrying about the fiscal cliff just leads to victory dances from Keynesians…

• Oct. 26, 2012 | Robert Samuelson on government jobs: They exist, but people who recognize them are like flat-earthers

• Oct. 23, 2012 | Not dead yet: Currency management and the need for a more competitive dollar

• Oct. 22, 2012 | No, we don’t need China to finance budget deficits

• Oct. 22, 2012 | Notes for tonight’s debate: Faster growth without growing budget deficits requires a more competitive U.S. dollar

• Oct. 5, 2012 | ‘Generational’ accusations are nearly always wrong

• Sept. 28, 2012 | Multipliers, yet again

• Sept. 27, 2012 | Which candidate’s plans are more Keynesian?

• Sept. 17, 2012 | One year of Occupy Wall Street

• Sept. 14, 2012 | The value of Fed-talk

• Sept. 12, 2012 | Want to understand today’s inaction in solving economic problems? Read The State of Working America

• Sept. 6, 2012 | Elizabeth Warren on why you should read State of Working America too many American families are struggling to get ahead

• Aug. 22, 2012 | What do Social Security, Medicare and public investments have in common? They make us richer

• Aug. 20, 2012 | Bankrupt! No, not the U.S. economy, just the policy discussion about it

• July 27, 2012 | Potential failure

• July 17, 2012 | Inequality, exhibit A: Walmart and the wealth of American families

• July 12, 2012 | The ‘technology did it’ zombie has arisen

• July 9, 2012 | Robert Samuelson says the economy isn’t allowed to have the Keynesian cures it needs because of … Keynesians (from the 1960s)

• July 6, 2012 | Three years into recovery, just how much has state and local austerity hurt job growth?

• June 29, 2012 | David Brooks thinks that the ACA should be replaced with … lots of stuff already in the ACA

• June 28, 2012 | The mandate lives and conservatives weep that Americans don’t have to pay more for health coverage

• June 14, 2012 | Job chart in Romney’s economic plan seems wrong still funky

• June 7, 2012 | Claims about the efficacy of fiscal stimulus in a depressed economy are based on as-flimsy evidence as the Laffer Curve?! Seriously false equivalence

• June 5, 2012 | ‘Simplistic Keynesians’ still right about the economy

• May 25, 2012 | One more time: Public debt incurred when the economy is depressed does not damage the economy

• May 24, 2012 | Getting to a better Fed is about more than just Jamie Dimon

• May 24, 2012 | Does just arguing over the debt ceiling damage recovery? Maybe

• April 25, 2012 | Austerity in the UK — losing the argument and the economy

• April 20, 2012 | Cutting public investments to protect “the children” — or, when the cure is much worse than the malady

• April 17, 2012 | Did Greg Mankiw really just brandish his $170 textbook as evidence of the benefits of unfettered competition?

• April 12, 2012 | It’s true, the Buffett Rule won’t lower unemployment by itself (but it’s still worth doing)

• April 6, 2012 | Were some of ARRA’s jobs eaten by rising hours?

• April 5, 2012 | Unemployment rising too fast, then falling too fast … going forward, it should (unfortunately) be just right

• March 23, 2012 | Economists arguing that there is indeed such a thing as a free lunch … as long as people are willing to eat it

• March 21, 2012 | What’s good for Apple is … just good for Apple

• March 2, 2012 | Reagan, Keynes, government spending, jobs. Redux.

• Feb. 15, 2012 | Morals, money and book promotion

• Feb. 10, 2012 | More lessons from testifying: Must explain that one person’s income is another’s cost

• Feb. 10, 2012 | Lessons from testifying before the GOP House: Don’t assume people know basic economic principles

• Feb. 7, 2012 | Romer argues against ‘special treatment’ for U.S. manufacturing (gasp, somebody smart is wrong on the Internet!)

• Feb. 3, 2012 | Tracking GDP and jobs: When repeating the same thing over and over actually provides useful information

• Jan. 31, 2012 | Record low capacity utilization in electric sector inconsistent with “regulations kill jobs” mantra

• Jan. 27, 2012 | Maybe Reagan was onto something…

• Jan. 26, 2012 | The Fed’s longer-run goals: Defining success down?

• Jan. 24, 2012 | Apple execs (like everyone else) overlook global exchange rates

• Jan. 19, 2012 | Don’t blame the robots: It’s not productivity growth that’s holding job growth back

• Jan. 12, 2012 | Asking the wrong question about presidents and jobs

• Jan. 12, 2012 | Trade and jobs – why make it so hard?

• Jan. 3, 2012 | A happy (economic) 2012 is far from guaranteed

• Dec. 19, 2011 | Cleaner, safer air (and some jobs) coming soon: Final “air-toxics rule” still likely to be life-saver, not job-killer

• Dec. 12, 2011 | Same old, same old: One quick test for what’s serious in job creation proposals

• Dec. 8, 2011 | I still haven’t run a small business … but the case against regulation is still awfully weak

• Nov. 28, 2011 | Eurozone crisis: Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

• Nov. 15, 2011 | In the Beltway, the answer is always “faster deficit reduction!”

• Nov. 14, 2011 | The timing is right for construction-related environmental jobs

• Nov. 14, 2011 | Drawing all the wrong lessons from the Euro crisis

• Nov. 10, 2011 | Snapshot: CEOs distance themselves from the average worker

• Nov. 8, 2011 | It’s [not] the economy [that I recognize]

• Oct. 28, 2011 | Once again, the Great Recession explains why today’s economy is so bad

• Oct. 28, 2011 | Fast investment growth + slow employment growth = no puzzle

• Oct. 26, 2011 | CBO joins EPI in providing intellectual support to OWS

• Oct. 26, 2011 | Treasury analysis confirms hollowness of regulatory uncertainty claims

• Oct. 21, 2011 | Video: Seniors rapping about Social Security

• Oct. 21, 2011 | Quick clicks: Growing chorus wants the Fed to do more

• Oct. 18, 2011 | Uh-oh, the peasants are getting angry… time to lie to them about taxes!

• Oct. 17, 2011 | What should have been different this time? The policy response

• Oct. 11, 2011 | In bad times, borrowing from yourself doesn’t make you poor

• Oct. 7, 2011 | With friends like these…

• Oct. 6, 2011 | So’s your mother. And Reagan. And you’ve never run a business!

• Oct. 6, 2011 | Progressive counter-pressure for the Fed?

• Oct. 5, 2011 | “That’s where the money is”

• Oct. 4, 2011 | Truly shared sacrifice includes Wall Street

• Oct. 4, 2011 | The bad economy is not just a state of mind

• Sept. 28, 2011 | Are hedge-fund managers making my health insurance premiums expensive?

• Sept. 21, 2011 | Basic macroeconomics for Republican congressional leaders, part II

• Sept. 16, 2011 | Macroeconomics is not a religion

• Sept. 16, 2011 | When did the meltdown really begin?

• Sept. 14, 2011 | Payroll tax cuts – just how much bang for buck?

• Sept. 8, 2011 | Frantic about jobs? Really?

• Sept. 8, 2011 | Famous economists agreeing with us — the first in an occasional series

• Sept. 8, 2011 | Double-dip? It doesn’t really matter