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Ownership, Rental Costs and the Prospects of Building Home Equity: An Analysis of 100 Metropolitan Areas 

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  **POSITIVE and NEGATIVE U.S. equity projections**
A new report from CEPR and the National Low Income Housing Coalition compares the costs of renting and owning across the top 100 US metropolitan areas.
How Not to Attack an Economist (and an Economy): Getting the Numbers Right

A new CEPR paper responds to a debate over the extent of economic and social progress in Venezuela.

Inventories and War Spending Keep Economy Growing in First Quarter

GDP eked out a 0.6 percent gain in the first quarter of 2008, but with consumption slowing and state and local government spending slipping, GDP is likely to fall in the next two quarters. Further analysis of the BEA's report on the Gross Domestic Product can be found in CEPR's GDP Byte.

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Latest release: Jobs Byte, May 2

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Mortgage Crisis Seeps to Prime Loans
USA Today May 9, 2008

Report: Dallas-Fort Worth is a Good Place to Build Home Equity

Dallas Morning News: May 8, 2008

Santa Cruz Referendum in Bolivia
Sunday Morning (KPFA CA): May 4, 2008

Disappearing Now: $6 Trillion in Housing Wealth
L.A. Times.com: April 30, 2008

Recasting a Housing Rescue

MarketWatch: April 30, 2008

Stimulating the Economy, the Green Way

Real Time Economics (WSJ): April 23, 2008

Brazil to Deal With Paraguay on Power Price Demand

Reuters: April 22, 2008

Former Bishop Fernando Lugo Scores Historic Win in Paraguay

Boston Globe (AP): April 21, 2008


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