Recession profiteering, liberal edition

Here's one group that's been doing well -- or, at least getting a lot of media citations -- in this economy: liberal economic think tanks. The data is a bit old now, but they did much better in 2008 than in 2007. The news comes from FAIR's annual think tank survey, which counts the news citations for the various think tanks. Centrist and conservative think tanks continue to dominate. But some of the liberal economic ones went way up: Economic Policy Institute (+56%), Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (+68%), Center for Economic and Policy Research (+60%).