Obama Economic Team

Obama, Democrats Plot Out Follow-Through On Jobs Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In the wake of Friday's dismal employment report, which reported no net change in the number of U.S. jobs, Top officials in the Democrat...

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David Axelrod Downplays Bad Jobs News, Says Austan Goolsbee To Play Big Reelection Role

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Lost in this week's announcement that Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, would be leaving the White Hous...

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Obama's Sets Mission For New Team: Accelerate Growth

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sees a clear and encouraging trend on the economy, citing fresh reports showing private-sector job growth an...

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Paul Volcker: Unemployment Has No Short-Term Solution

Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJNG (AP) -- A top economic adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday he sees no short-term way to reduce high U.S. unemployment and expects sl...

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Obama Sets Mission For New Team: Accelerate Economic Growth

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — His presidency tied to the fate of the economy, Barack Obama is revamping his economic policy team and signaling cooperation to asc...

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Will Obama Shake Up His Economic Team?

wsj.com | PETER WALLSTEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The strategy sessions aired a range of disagreements over how to help Democrats forestall an electoral drubbing at the polls--a defeat party strategis...

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Summers, Unapologetic To The Bitter End

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his final public remarks as head of President Obama's National Economic Council on Monday morning, Larry Summers, to no one's surprise, had nothin...

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Larry Summers And The Subversion of Economics

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Elyse Ashburn | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration recently announced that Larry Summers is resigning as director of the National Economic Council and will return to Harvard ea...

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Obama Hedges On Possible Geithner, Summers Departures

Roll Call | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama hedged Monday on whether he planned to keep Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and economic adviser Larry Summers on his staff...

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Top Obama Administration Economic Jobs Remain Vacant

New York Times | SEWELL CHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama signaled on Friday that he was close to choosing a director for a new consumer bureau, but an array of top jobs that wil...

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Tone Deaf White House Needs Top Economic Honcho to Counter Criticism That It's Anti-Middle Class

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

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The administration seems intent on shooting itself and Democrats in the foot by appointing a conservative pro-business executive rather than a proven fighter for the economic interests of the middle class.

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Obama Economic Team Considering New Stimulus Heavy On Tax Breaks For Business

Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the recovery faltering less than two months before the November congressional elections, President Obama's economic team is considering another b...

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Obama Economic Team Weighing New Wave Of Tax Cuts, Infrastructure Spending: WSJ

Wall Street Journal | DEBORAH SOLOMON and JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration is considering a range of new measures to boost economic growth, including tax cuts and a new nationwide infrastructure progr...

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Behind Obama's Decision To Toughen Stance On Big Banks

Wall Street Journal | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 05.25.2011

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For nearly a year, President Barack Obama's economic team resisted measures to restrict the size and activities of the biggest U.S. banks. Two days af...

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Al Hunt: Obama Economic Team Needs To Get Its Act Together

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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A year ago, the expectation was that President-elect Barack Obama's economic team would be a smooth- functioning machine, and the outlook was for turb...

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Washington: Totally Disconnected From Main Street

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Operating a business on Main Street is a lot different than lecturing at the Harvard Economic Club. The team Obama surrounded himself with has spent way more time in a faculty lounge than in the corner barber shop.

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Voters Who Lost Faith In Dodd Wouldn't Trust Obama's Economics Team Either

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senator Chris Dodd announced last week that he is relinquishing his office. He didn't really have much choice -- the voters of Connecticut were prepar...

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Did Team Obama Get It Wrong On The Stimulus?

McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall and David Lightman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Should the federal government be doing more to help the economy regain its footing? That's the question du jour following a dismal June employment rep...

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Summers Defends Record, Warns Of Seeing "False Dawns" In Economic Crisis

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's economic adviser on Friday defended the administration's efforts to rescue banks, insurance companies and ...

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Tension Grips Obama's Economic Circle

New York Times | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON President Obama was getting his daily economic briefing one recent morning when a fly distracted him. The president swatted and missed, ju...

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Arianna Discusses Tim Geithner on Larry King Live

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna appeared on Larry King Live Monday night to discuss whether or not Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner should be fired. Watch below: Embedded ...

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Obama calls stimulus bill delay 'inexcusable'

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama decried as "inexcusable and irresponsible" the delay of his economic recovery legislation in Congress with a...

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Davos Diss: Obama Economics Team Not Coming

Yahoo! News | 25�Mins�Ago | Posted 05.25.2011

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The new US administration will send only one of President Barack Obama's close aides to the World Economic Forum's meeting in Davos next week instead ...

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DAN TARULLO: Obama Economic Advisor To Be Named To Federal Reserve Board

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reuters is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama will promote Georgetown professor Dan Tarullo from being one of his economic advisors to fill a...

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Obama Chooses Wall Street Over Main Street

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maybe Ralph Nader was right: the same Wall Street hustlers will have a lock on our government no matter which major party wins the election. How else is one to respond to Obama's economic picks?

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