newamerica.net - 10/31/2008
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Comment by Rob Atkinson, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Bernard Schwartz and Sherle Schwenninger provide a much needed correction to current economic thinking by pointing out that current thinking on stimulus policy is right out of the Keynesian ...
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Applause for Obama's Thoughtful Stand on Infrastructure Investment
The Washington Note —
The New America Foundation's Sherle Schwenninger and industrialist and philanthropist Bernard Schwartz were out way ahead of the pack in calling for massive government commitment to infrastructure investment.
Now this has become conventional wisdom of late. Not too long ago, Senior Obama economic policy adviser Austan Goolsbee complimented Schwenninger's heavy-lifting on the infrastructure agenda before many others were in that policy space.
But beyond a bland embrace ...
Steve Clemons: Applause for Obama's Thoughtful Stand on Infrastructure Investment
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
The New America Foundation's Sherle Schwenninger and industrialist and philanthropist Bernard Schwartz were out way ahead of the pack in calling for massive government commitment to infrastructure investment.
Now this has become conventional wisdom of late. Not too long ago, Senior Obama economic policy adviser Austan Goolsbee complimented Schwenninger's heavy-lifting on the infrastructure agenda before many others were in that policy space.
But beyond a bland embrace ...
George Soros, Bernard Schwartz, Laura Tyson, Martin Wolf, Mark Zandi and Others to Headline Major NAF Economic Policy Forum on London G-20 Meeting and What Will Replace US Consumer
The Washington Note —
... has been trying to push the administration and Congress to realize that there are different kinds of deficits the nation has to struggle with -- and the most important in his mind is leaving an "infrastruture deficit" to the next generation. He will be helping to open this important conference. ...
Soros, Tyson, Martin Wolf to Headline Discussion on What Will (or Won't) Replace US Consumer
TPMCafe —
... has been trying to push the administration and Congress to realize that there are different kinds of deficits the nation has to struggle with -- and the most important in his mind is leaving an "infrastruture deficit" to the next generation. He will be helping to open this important conference. ...
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