Illusions & Delusions About the US Economic Picture: What it Will Take to Strengthen America's 'Real Economy' featuring Leo Hindery.
Former John Edwards campaign senior economic advisor and telecom executive Leo Hindery understands better than most the difference between the needs of Wall Street and the needs of average Americans on Main Street.
Looking at the subprime crisis as a symptom of a long history of economic mismanagement, Leo Hindery will argue that recent calls to change the regulatory bureaucracy in Washington are at best a band-aid. Rather, the American economy needs a long-term strategy to build a new edge in tradable goods and services to rebuild our middle class with high-wage jobs and reduce our massive trade imbalances.
Leo Hindery has announced his support of Barack Obama’s campaign - but he will be speaking on his own behalf and not that of any campaign.
Economic writers and commentators Bruce Stokes and Sherle Schwenninger will offer reactions- New America Foundation
Bio
Steven C. Clemons
Steven Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote a new American internationalism that combines a tough-minded realism about America's interests in the world with a pragmatic idealism about the kind of world order best suited to America's democratic way of life. He is also a senior fellow at New America and previously served as executive vice president.
Publisher of the popular political blog The Washington Note, Clemons is a long-term policy practitioner and entrepreneur in Washington, D.C. He has served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute and Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International Affairs to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and was the first executive director of the Nixon Center.
Prior to moving to Washington, Clemons served for seven years as Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California, and he co-founded with Chalmers Johnson the Japan Policy Research Institute, of which he is still Director.
He is a member of the board of the Clarke Center at Dickinson College, a liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pa., as well as an advisory board member of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. He is also a board member of the Global Policy Innovations Program at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and a member of the board of the Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund.
Clemons writes frequently on matters of foreign policy, defense, and international economic policy. His work has appeared in many of the major leading op-ed pages, journals, and magazines around the world.
Leo Hindery
Leo Hindery is an American businessman, political activist and philanthropist.
Hindery is Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, a New York-based media industry private equity fund. Until 2004, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The YES Network, the nation’s largest regional sports network which he founded in 2001 as the television home of the New York Yankees.
He headed TCI Cable before it was merged into AT&T. He was briefly interim CEO of Global Crossing, a company that underwent bankruptcy recovery due to corporate abuse, although this took place after Hindery left.
In 2004, his name was floated as a possible successor to Terry McAuliffe as head of the Democratic National Committee.
When head of TCI Cable, he resided with his family in Hillsborough, California. He now lives in New York City.
Currently, he is the Senior Economic Policy Adviser to Former Sen. John Edwards's 2008 Presidential campaign.
Sherle Schwenninger
Sherle Schwenninger is the Director of the Foundation's Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program, which provides financial, professional, and institutional support to 35 Fellows each year. He also directs New America's Global Middle Class Program.
Mr. Schwenninger was Founding Editor of World Policy Journal from 1983 to 1992, and served as Director of the World Policy Institute at The New School from 1992 to 1996. He was also Director of the Institute's Policy Studies Program and its Transnational Academic Program.
More recently, Mr. Schwenninger served as Senior Program Coordinator for the Project on Development, Trade, and International Finance at the Council on Foreign Relations, and is the author, with Walter Russell Mead, of the CFR publication A Financial Architecture for Middle-Class-Oriented Development.
He is also a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute. Mr. Schwenninger writes and speaks frequently on questions of American foreign policy and international economic strategy.
Bruce Stokes
Bruce Stokes is the international economics columnist for National Journal. He is also a frequent guest on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and The Diane Rehm Show. He has won several awards, including the John Hancock Award for excellence in business and economics reporting, Washingtonian magazine's "Best on Business" award, a Japan Society Fellowship, and a German Marshall Fund Fellowship.
Additionally, Mr. Stokes is director of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, an assessment of public attitudes toward globalization, democratization, and America based on a survey of 90,000 people in 50 countries. He is also a co-author of the new book America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked, co-author of the book Democratizing U.S. Trade Policy, and author of A New Beginning: Recasting the U.S.-Japan Economic Relationship.
Mr. Stokes was recently named by International Economy magazine as one of the "most influential press China watchers."
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