CEPR has released a paper that looks at the poor track record of CGE models in projecting the changes in patterns of trade following recent trade deals and how these models failed to project the large rise in the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico following the implementation of NAFTA or with South Korea following the implementation of KORUS. 

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot appeared on Democracy Now to talk about whether the U.S. is backing the attempted removal of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, a topic Mark recently wrote about for Folha de Sao Paulo.

Two new issue briefs from CEPR examine the need for reform at the IMF, specifically its methodology for estimating potential GDP and the policy and political implications of these estimates as well as how increasing voting shares of low- and middle-income countries could possibly make IMF policy better reflect and serve the interests of the majority of the world’s population.

In a new CEPR report, Cherrie Bucknor and Dean Baker find that raising the Social Security retirement age imposes hardship on millions of American Workers.