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newamerica.net - 11/12/2008
As the Economy Screams | The New America Foundation
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The Fed just dropped the fed funds rate by 75 basis points -- the largest such move since 1984. No matter what the issues were yesterday, it is clear that the economy -- domestic and global -- is what will be the biggest political issue today and tomorrow... at least for a while. So for this ...

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newamerica.net - 11/10/2008
Recipes for Recovery | The New America Foundation
— newamerica.net — With change in the air, and the economy in crisis, the New America Foundation's Next Social Contract Initiative and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget bring together leading experts to discuss potential short and long-term remedies for ... (more) Recipes for Recovery | The New America Foundation
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What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney
The Washington Note — ... At a New America Foundation economic policy event that featured the economic advisers to John McCain, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama, Obama's adviser Austan Goolsbee made the seemingly sensible suggestion that when confronting complex trade and economic treaties, Obama would weigh each one on its merits. His basic point was that trade deals -- even deals that seemingly promoted free trade -- were hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pages long. They were not all the same and Obama would support some and not others. ...

Steve Clemons: What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... At a New America Foundation economic policy event that featured the economic advisers to John McCain, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama, Obama's adviser Austan Goolsbee made the seemingly sensible suggestion that when confronting complex trade and economic treaties, Obama would weigh each one on its merits. His basic point was that trade deals -- even deals that seemingly promoted free trade -- were hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pages long. They were not all the same and Obama would support some and not others. ...

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