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After days of drama-filled meetings, in late October eurozone leaders announced the latest “comprehensive” rescue plan. Although it was an improvement over earlier efforts, this package, too, came up short in that it failed to calm the markets and offer the eurozone a path back to economic growth. And without growth, there will be many more months of crisis.

It was commissioned by the New America Foundation, which hoped that it might “re-center the political debate to better reflect the country's deep economic problems,” according to Sherle Schwenninger, the director of the foundation's Economic Growth ...

Sherle Schwenninger, an infrastructure expert at the New America Foundation, a leading Washington think tank, says that a kind of anti-bigness mindset developed in the 1990s, that era in which the besotting buzzwords were “Silicon Valley” and “West ...

While the U.S. credit downgrade and a volatile stock market continue to dominate headlines, the national conversation is beginning to shift back to the difficult challenge of creating jobs.  The New America Foundation is encouraging and advancing that discussion with its Decent Jobs Forum -- an unprecedented collection of analysis and possible answers from 10 leading experts. 

These are extremely modest suggestions in terms of the scale of the problem," said Sherle Schwenninger, director of economic growth and American strategy at the nonpartisan group New America Foundation. Immelt, the head of the panel, ...

... Sherle Schwenninger, director of economic growth and American strategy programs at the New America Foundation has some advice for our elected officials in Washington to help revitalize the U.S. economy. ...

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The foundation of America's middle class is under strain.
 
High unemployment and the restructuring of the labor market have eroded middle-class incomes after decades of stagnation.  Meanwhile, the cost of health

In the Fall of 2008 as financial markets were tumbling around the world, legendary investor Warren Buffet equated the bursting of the housing and credit bubble to an economic Pearl Harbor, one that could plunge the economy into a painful and prolonged downturn reminiscent of the 1930s.  Thanks in part to the lessons that were learned from the Great Depression, American and European policymakers won the immediate battle of preventing the economy from sinking into another Depression.  But they have not yet won the war to regain prosperity.  Not only do the U.S.

Five G-20 nations have been placed on the Current Account Surplus Watch for having excessively large current account surpluses and for not taking adequate corrective measures.

... Chief Investment Officer of Strategic Financial Group, and Sherle R. Schweninger and Samuel Sherraden of the New America Foundation, does well to point ...

The Great Recession has put enormous strain on the American social contract, exposing not only the many holes in our social safety net but also the weaknesses in its basic design and philosophy.

By all indications, housing is heading for a double dip. The dramatic fall in new home and existing home sales in July along with the increase in the inventory of unsold houses will almost certainly be followed by a new decline in housing prices in a few months' time.

A double dip in housing will add yet another drag to an already weakening economy, further eroding consumer confidence and precipitating a new round of bank failures. In this sense, housing is a leading indicator -- of another recession.