NDN Economic Backgrounder - Climate Change, Healthcare Reform and Financial Regulation
The week has seen a number of important debates - the future of American foreign policy, healthcare reform, climate change and new financial reform. Here's what NDN has had to say:
- Choices in Universal Healthcare by Dr. Robert Shapiro, 6/17/09 - Shapiro's overseas travel left him with some fresh perspective on the future of American healthcare.
- More Inconvenient Truths by Michael Moynihan, 6/17/09 - Moynihan writes that the Obama administration's important report on the dangerous realities of climate change illustrates a cap and market regime will not begin to address the true and lasting costs of climate change.
- Passing Climate Change This Year by Michael Moynihan, 6/16/09 - Moynihan continues to make the case that there has never been a better time to pass a climate change bill and if action does not take place this year, the prospects for passage are likely to decline.
- Getting Serious about Our Financial Mess by Dr. Robert Shapiro, 6/10/09 - America needs new, serious financial regulations. Shapiro argues the recent decision to keep trading in large, "private" deals in derivatives outside regulated markets is just one of a series of poor regulatory decisions the administration has made in the wake of TARP.
- Clean Technology Innovation: Reaping the Rewards by Michael Moynihan, 6/9/09 - Moynihan writes about the status quo's stranglehold on clean technology innovation. He outlines three steps the administration should take to encourage entrepreneurship and consumer choice.
- The Waxman-Markey Bill: Politics-as-Usual Meets Climate Change by Dr. Robert Shapiro, 6/3/09 - Shapiro writes that Waxman-Markey combines the inherent problems of cap-and-trade with a catalog of giveaways and exceptions that will do little to actually deal with climate change.
- Seizing the Smart Grid Opportunity by Michael Moynihan, 6/2/09 - In order for America to make good on clean energy opportunity, Moynihan says we must open up the grid to all and re-examine energy regulation.
- The Courage, Cunning and Shortcomings of the Administration's Health Care Plans by Dr. Robert J. Shapiro, 5/14/2009 - The Administration's health care focus, goals and priorities are right in the ways that matter. Now they need to provide a more detailed blueprint of how they intend to reach those goals and achieve those priorities.
- The Economic Conversation Enters a New Phase: Putting Consumers Front and Center Now by Simon Rosenberg, Huffington Post, 5/14/09 - Rosenberg writes that the Administration's turn in the national economic conversation from the plight of big institutions and the financial system to what is perhaps the most important part of the story of the Great Recession still is not adequately understood - the weakened state of the American consumer prior to the recent recession and financial collapse.
- Should We Try to Save the Damaged Brands? by Simon Rosenberg, 4/30/2009 - Rosenberg asks if these mainstay, now troubled American brands - AIG, Chrysler, Citi, GM - can be saved by being propped up by the government or if their brands are permanently insolvent.
- Spend? Save? The debate continues, by Simon Rosenberg, 2/11/2009 - Building on a previous post , Rosenberg follows the growing debate about whether American families should be focusing on saving.
- The Utter Bankruptcy of Today's Republican Party by Simon Rosenberg, 1/28/09 - Rosenberg argues that Republican opposition to the economic recovery package represents the ideological bankruptcy of the party.
- A Stimulus for the Long Run by Simon Rosenberg and Dr. Robert Shapiro, 11/14/2008 - This important essay lays out the now widely agreed-upon argument that the upcoming economic stimulus package must include investments in the basic elements of growth for the next decade, including elements that create a low-carbon, energy-efficient economy.
- Making the Struggle of Every Day People the Central Focus of the National Debate by Simon Rosenberg, 8/17/2008 - As the 2008 presidential campaign entered a crucial phase, Rosenberg argued that political leaders must focus on raising the wages and incomes of Americans.
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