"They're back and can do these multiple attacks," Peter Bergen, an analyst with CNN, told the network. Indonesia had not had a major terrorist attack for ...
... the fiscal outlook has become "considerably worse," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
Summers appears to be echoing what ft's Martin Wolf said back in March at the New America Foundation, when he argued that China and Germany needed to move ...
July 13, 2009
"For years, we've been warning that the budget was out of balance over the long term and we should act while there is still time," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "Well, guess what? Time is quickly running out. We're drowning in unprecedented levels of red ink, and there is no plan to fix the situation."
The committees are expected to move on the bill quickly, and the House bill is far more likely to be passed before the Senate version, said Len M. Nichols, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation think tank. ...
Flynt Leverett, a former Mideast specialist on the National Security Council and advocate of a "grand bargain" between the US and Iran, said the new working group could undermine the credibility of any US offers to Iran. ...
The centrist-leaning Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has similar concerns.
"At the end of the day, his numbers don't add up," said Marc Goldwein, policy director for the budget watchdog group. "They want to do everything and it's just not realistic."
Within Washington, a consensus seems to have emerged that the Obama administration will have to wait for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to die before re-engaging with Pyongyang.
It worked so well with Fidel Castro.
Prince Turki also spoke Monday morning during a day long conference at The New America Foundation, titled "US-Saudi Relations in a World Without Equilibrium," which is live streaming through the afternoon on ...
April 27, 2009
Our nation must re-establish fiscal balance as soon as macroeconomically permissible. At this moment, there is no question that we must take substantive steps to stimulate our economy and address the crises in our housing and financial markets.
In fact, I have never seen such consensus in a profession as argumentative as economics. But America's economic and social futures are also threatened by several long-term challenges. First among these is the ever-rising cost of health care.
