White House To Lose Two Top Economic Aides

Wall Street Journal:

WASHINGTON--Two more of the Obama administration's top economic advisers are departing at a time when the White House is facing growing opposition to their economic policies on Capitol Hill.

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Comments

[John Denton]

07:20 AM on 11/29/2010

Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin’s Special Assistant. Rubin, you might recall, destroyed much of the planet's economy by deregulating Wall Street derivatives.

[John Denton]

07:13 AM on 11/29/2010

Farrell is (was) a free market booster who published a lot of go-go paper on how the global economy is soaring, right up to September '08, then crickets. She of course was an ex-Goldman Sacs White House employee.

[FoxIslander]

12:58 PM on 11/25/2010

...rats on a sinking ship....and yes, I voted for O.

[sarabono]

12:32 AM on 11/25/2010

Two more bail. Are there any left ?

[catbite]

06:16 PM on 11/24/2010

More and more people are bailing. Obama is not what he said he was and it's too bad so many people believed in his dream. He's just not a strong person. A huge disappointment.. I hope the Dems are thinking about plan B

[nobodysgirl]

03:58 PM on 11/24/2010

President Obama: I voted for you, and will again should you run.
May I offer a suggestion?

Replace the economic 'experts' with an ordinary working person. Try something new for different results. Uh -- someone like me.

[florida native]

11:19 AM on 11/24/2010

Time to rotate the Wall Street economic advisers...........out with the old and in with the new. And people are still looking for that HOPE AND CHANGE ???

[leftLibertarian]

08:16 AM on 11/24/2010

Good Riddance. Now Timmy, it's your turn.

[castlerider]

03:29 AM on 11/24/2010

Replace them with William K. Black and Janet Tavakoli...

No matter how Geithner fumes and objects.

[MrOctober]

01:58 AM on 11/24/2010

Oh look! A Clinton administration Wall Street official looks to be replacing Larry Summers.

"Roger Altman, a Wall Street executive who was a deputy Treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, has emerged as one of several top candidates to fill Mr. Summers' spot."

Hope and Change = More of Same.

[catbite]

06:17 PM on 11/24/2010

We should have elected Hillary Clinton. She has a backbone.

[MrOctober]

01:42 AM on 11/24/2010

The Wall Streeters can safely leave and go back to huge paying private sector positions. They easily flattend the slightest chance that big Democratic majorities and a mandate from the people to 'change' would actually cause change, after Wall Street sent the country into a massive Crash . The Republicans and gridlock should keep the Wall Street centered Status Quo well in check for the next 2 years.

[rory talbot]

11:59 PM on 11/23/2010

White House To Lose Two Top Economic Aides...Timothy "Always Wrong" Geithner to Remain

[G52]

06:09 AM on 11/28/2010

He REALLY needs to go.

[Shaun Hensley]

10:37 PM on 11/23/2010

And yet timmy remains.

[Ironquill]

10:36 PM on 11/23/2010

Obama needs to stop pussyfooting around with the nay-sayers on Capitol Hill. Get some heavyweights who can stare down Republicans. Someone has suggested a Russell Crowe "type". We need good spokesmen, not financial engineers. We're in a tough fight, get fighters.

[castlerider]

03:31 AM on 11/24/2010

Howard Dean.

[Reno Fickler]

08:25 PM on 11/23/2010

You don't have to be a sailor to know what "rats leaving the ship" means.

[axt113]

10:09 PM on 11/23/2010

Or people being forced to "walk the plank" means