Economic Recovery Advisory Board

Why Obama's Top Economic Adviser Should Be Missed

The Atlantic | MEGAN MCARDLE | Posted 10.10.2011

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Why the White House—and Washington—should miss departing economic adviser Austan Goolsbee....

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Paul Krugman: The Competition Myth

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Meet the new buzzword, same as the old buzzword. In advance of the State of the Union, President Obama has telegraphed his main theme: competitiveness...

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Immelt To Head Obama Economic Advisory Board

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — More than half the nation disapproves of President Barack Obama's policies to reduce stubbornly high unemployment, a new Ass...

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Obama Losing Key Economic Adviser

Reuters | Caren Bohan | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was stepping down from his rol...

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Americans Pay $140 Billion, Spend 7.6 Billion Hours A Year Just To File Their Taxes, Report Finds

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Any attempts to simplify the complicated U.S. tax code will produce lower taxes for some people and higher payments for others, including some of the ...

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Richard Trumka Vomits At White House Meeting With Obama

Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama convened a meeting of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board Friday, but one of his top allies needed a little more time to recover. ...

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Volcker Still 'Just A Photo Op'?

Posted 05.25.2011

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When Paul Volcker was first appointed chairman of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, he really didn't expect to have much influence. ...

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Paul Volcker, Former Federal Reserve Chairman, Engaged

CNN | Carol Loomis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Volcker has just become engaged to his longtime assistant, Anke Dening. The former Federal Reserve boss proposed on Thanksgiving Day and the two then ...

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GE Promotes Manufacturing Jobs in US, Then Ships 'em Overseas

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Without a new American manufacturing policy there will be no economic recovery. We need to move beyond a bubble economy built on debt and financial speculation and into a real economy that actually makes products.

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Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board To Hold First Meeting

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The prime office space in the southeast corner of the Treasury building sits vacant four months into the Obama administration. Its ...

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Penny Pritzker: Wealthy Obama Campaign Finance Chair Breaks With President, Opposes EFCA

FireDogLake | Posted 05.25.2011

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Penny Pritzker, the finance chair of the Obama campaign who is now a member of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, has a somewhat different opinion ...

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Volcker Involved In Anti-Stimulus Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 05.25.2011

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The chairman of President Obama's Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Paul Volcker, is an official of a think-tank that recently assailed t...

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Economic Recovery Advisory Board To Be Led By Paul Volcker (SLIDESHOW)

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker will chair a new economic advisory panel created by President-elect Barack Obama and designed to stabiliz...

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