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Global Mess Gives Birth to New Era | Financial Post

March 14, 2009
But the United States doesn't appear to recognize how much anger and blame is being cast its way," says Douglas Rediker, a former investment banker who is now director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation in ...
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Nature of Citi Stake Debatable | Financial Times

February 27, 2009
“It is an evolutionary step in the right direction, but as many analysts are pointing out, the fear remains that more steps will be required in the future,” said Douglas Rediker at the New America Foundation, a public policy institute.
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Obama's Address to the Nation

February 24, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Barack Obama is set to deliver a speech to the nation this evening to lay out his economic recovery plans and discuss the challenges ahead in trying to pull the nation out of a severe recession.

The President's address comes on the same day as Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke testifying before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee about the state of our nation's banks.

The President is also expected to discuss healthcare and America's foreign policy.

New America Foundation experts are available to discuss today's events.
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Now We Have To Focus on Job Creation | The Nation

February 13, 2009
Leo Hindery, the chair of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation, and former Michigan Senator Donald Riegle, a Democrats who ...
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Kerry Shakes Things Up at the SFRC | Foreign Policy

February 12, 2009
Kerry's committee has also hired international financial expert Heidi Crebo-Rediker from the New America Foundation to head up a new SFRC focus on ...
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Foreign Policy Implications of the Financial Crisis

February 11, 2009

Washington DC -- Douglas Rediker, director of New America Foundation's Global Strategic Finance Initiative, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations today on the foreign policy implications of the financial crisis.

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Back on Tracks: Phillip Longman's "Steel Wheel Interstate" Proposal

January 21, 2009

Washington, DC -- In a just-published cover story for the Washington Monthly, Phillip Longman proposes an idea that would make driving safer and more pleasant, reduce highway repair costs, mitigate the need to build or expand Interstates, d

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Changing Society, Changing Ideas | CQ Weekly

January 17, 2009
"What we're talking about are the kinds of investments that will create the platform for people to thrive, not just a safety net," said Frank Micciche, deputy director of New America Foundation's Next Social Contract initiative.

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Will Stimulus Plans Go Global? | Christian Science Monitor

December 31, 2008
"Ideally, they should be doing the heavy pulling," says Sherle Schwenninger, an economic policy expert at the New America Foundation in New York. ...
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Investment in America’s Infrastructure

December 11, 2008

Washington, DC -- President-elect Barack Obama has called for an ambitious program of public investment in infrastructure, including but not limited to short-term stimulus spending. Proposals for rebuilding America have received broad bipartisan support.

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