Latest Policy Papers

CHINA: Explaining China’s Falling Current Account Balance
December 15 : China’s surplus fell from 10.1% of GDP in 2007 to 5.2% in 2010.  Whether its current account will continue to decline...
BUDGET: The 12 Principles of Fiscal Responsibility for the 2012 Campaign
December 15 : Make Deficit Reduction a Top Priority.Propose Specific Fiscal Targets.Recommend Specific Policies to Achieve the...
BUDGET: Dealing with Expiring Provisions in a Fiscally Responsible Manner
December 12 : At the end of this month, over 80 tax and spending policies are set to expire. How lawmakers deal with any extensions...
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Mesh Networks

An article in Wired features the Open Technology Initiative's Commotion project, also known as "Internet in a suitcase," and its test use in Occupy DC's media tent.

OTI's director Sascha Meinrath saw the Occupy movement as the perfect place to test the open source software that can turn cheap wireless access points into a community network, but says he'd happily use it at a similar Tea Party event.

Europe’s Bad Marriage

Liaquat Ahamed, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World and a New America director, recently dropped by the office for a lunch and discussion on the question of "Will Europe Collapse?"

In this video, Ahamed talks with Sam Sherraden of the Economic Growth Program about the Eurozone crisis and how the European Central Bank has perpetuated the problem and what it can do to help Europe climb out.

The State of Families

The Asset Building Program has been exploring ways to get a truer picture of how American families are faring beyond looking at income data alone. Measures of inequality, mobility, and new calculations for poverty can give policymakers a better starting point for devising solutions. In the final installment of a four-part series on their blog The Ladder, the program focuses on the effects of income inequality.

Also, get a deeper look at the numbers with data analysis on poverty, mobility, and inequality.

30 Under 30

Forbes Magazine recently included two of New America's leading thinkers in its "30 Under 30" list of "today's disrupters and tomorrow’s brightest stars."

Marc Goldwein, senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, who focuses on deficit reduction and fiscal issues, also worked on the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission.

Schwartz Fellow Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion, writes about the way the Internet can be used to supress democracy as much, if not more, than encourage it.