Is Unlimited Growth a Thing of the Past?
by Jay Pelosky Very powerful piece by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times. Day to day market fluctuations are one thing, but the search for growth may well be the next big thing in financial markets –...
View ArticleThe New Silk Road is Made of Iron-And Stretches from Scotland to Singapore
September 30, 2012Parag KhannaSeptember 30, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/72533 At some point in the next 200 million years, according to Yale University scientists, the North American and...
View ArticleReport: Iraq Will Account for Almost Half of Global Oil Growth by 2035
October 9, 2012 The troubled Middle East nation is projected to grow petro production faster than the rest of the OPEC countries combined. Steve LeVineOctober 9, 2012URL:...
View ArticleThe Missing Economic Debate
October 29, 2012Sherle R. SchwenningerOctober 12, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/72715 Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agree on at least one thing: that this election is “a choice between two...
View ArticleMonopolies: Antitrust Law Protects Consumers, Not Competitors
October 16, 2012Marvin AmmoriOctober 16, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/72902 As we gear up for the presidential debates tonight, it’s worth reflecting on the presidential debates from exactly...
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Answer Me This...
With the last of the three debates completed and the presidential election just around the corner, the New America Foundation has pulled together this video with people from our various policy teams to...
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Accumulating Wealth is related to Youth’s Math Achievement
The link between household wealth and youth’s educational outcomes has been confirmed by numerous research studies, finding that youth tend to do better educationally when their households have more...
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Raising American Wages...by Raising American Wages
November 15, 2012 Ron Unz, The American Conservative Click here to download the whole paper as a PDF.With Americans still trapped in the fifth year of our Great Recession, and median personal income...
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Debt, Deficits, and Demographics
Why We Can Afford the Social Contract November 19, 2012 Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.For much of the last three decades, policy...
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The Guardian's Data Blog: Mobile phone data: the oil of the digital age
This piece was originally posted on The Guardian's Data Blog. Three quarters of the world's more than six billion mobile phones are located in the developing world, and the ubiquity of these devices in...
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Economic Recovery and Social Investment
A Strategy to Create Good Jobs in the Service Sector November 26, 2012 Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.Today’s prolonged economic slump is...
View ArticleHow U.S. Can Once Again Define the Future
November 27, 2012Patrick C. DohertyNovember 27, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/74655 Washington is all about the fiscal cliff these days. In Doha, Qatar, world leaders are negotiating over...
View ArticleFrom Growth Compression to Reflation: The Road Ahead
by Jay PeloskyThis article originally appeared in The Huffington Post. View the original piece here.Five years into the global socio-economic crisis, five basic points have become clear. First, the...
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Tax Reform That Works: Building a Solid Fiscal Foundation with a VAT
November 29, 2012 Bruce Bartlett, Author, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform -- Why We Need It and What It Will Take Click here to download the full paper as a PDF. .field-field-image { margin: 0...
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No Discount: Comparing the Public Option to the Coupon Welfare State
December 3, 2012 Mike Konczal, Roosevelt Institute Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The fundamental ideological conflict surrounding the Welfare State in the U.S. is no longer over the...
View ArticleHigh-Speed Trades Hurt Investors, a Study Says
December 3, 2012Christopher Leonard Nathaniel Popper December 3, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/74922 A top government economist has concluded that the high-speed trading firms that have come to...
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Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy
December 10, 2012 Steven M. Teles, Johns Hopkins University Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The last thirty years of American history have witnessed, at least rhetorically, a battle over...
View ArticleIn The Tank: Player One Has Escaped Poverty
If you've ever played Oregon Trail, you probably remember the part where you shot bears and squirrels more than the part where you learned about frontier families. Today, we live in the online age of...
View ArticleThe Sidebar: The Key to Sanctions and America's Wealth Gulf
Reniqua Allen and Hannah Emple explain how and why America's racial wealth gap became a gulf. Tara Maller reveals what makes sanctions a success - or failure - and what she expects from the ones...
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Expanded Social Security
A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans April 3, 2013Michael LindJoshua FreedmanSteven Hill Robert Hiltonsmith, Demos Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.Executive...
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