Coffee Break| More...
 

Austan Goolsbee

Sam Stein

White House Official Feels 'Nervousness' About Dodd's Regulatory Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chris Dodd Financial Regulation, Nervousness Goolsbee, Austan Goolsbee, Dodd Regulatory Reform, Regulatory Reform, Financial Regulations, Transparency, Politics News

(Updated with response from Dodd's office; see below.) One of the president's top economic advisers expressed concerns Friday that financial regulat...

Read Whole Story

"Stand-Up Economist's" Letter To Obama Adviser

Nick Baumann | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Yoram Bauman, Austan Goolsbee, Rahm Emanuel, Stand-Up Economist, Business News

Yoram Bauman (no relation), who calls himself "the world's first and only stand-up economist," has penned an open letter to Obama economic adviser Aus...

Read Whole Story

Austan Goolsbee Calls Sarah Palin A Wingnut In Comedy Routine (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: d.c.'s Funniest Celebrity, White House, d.c. Funniest Celebrity Goolsbee, Austan Goolsbee, Austan Goolsbee Comedy, d.c.'s Funniest Celebrity Contest, Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, Political Comedy Routines, Comedy, Obama Administration, Comedy News

White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee won first prize in the 16th annual "D.C.'s Funniest Celebrity" contest last night. In his performance he...

Read Whole Story

Sam Stein and Ryan Grim

White House: House GOP Budget A "Joke"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Budget, White House, Budget Joke, Budget, White House Omb, Kenneth Baer, Austan Goolsbee, April Fools Joke, Politics News

House and Senate Republicans emerged from an early morning meeting in a closed House chamber Wednesday morning to unveil their much-awaited budget alt...

Read Whole Story

Arthur Delaney

White House Adviser: AIG Deserves 'Nobel Prize For Evil'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Austan Goolsbee, Nobel Prize for Evil, AIG Bailout, Bonus Outrage, Politics News

A top White House economic adviser said in a CNN interview today that the people behind American International Group's financial products division des...

Read Whole Story

Romer: "We're Pursuing Every Legal Means" To Undo AIG Bonuses

Huffington Post/Fox News/CNN | Marcus Baram | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government Funded Outrage, Aig Bonuses, Aig Outrage Lawmakers, Pelosi AIG, Austan Goolsbee, Mitch McConnell, Bonuses Aig, Aig Outrage, Barney Frank, Feingold AIG, Larry Summers, Taxpayer Money, Edward Liddy, Bonus Outrage, Politics News

A growing bipartisan chorus of lawmakers is condemning insurance giant AIG for deciding to pay out $165 million in bonuses despite receiving $170 bill...

Read Whole Story

Sam Stein

AIG Outrage Dominates Sunday Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government Funded Outrage, Aig Bonuses, Larry Summers, Aig Outrage, Bonuses Aig, Aig Outrage Lawmakers, Mitch McConnell, Taxpayer Money, Austan Goolsbee, Barney Frank, Video, Bonus Outrage, Politics News

Republicans and Democrats alike expressed "outrage" with the news that insurance giant AIG had decided to pay out $165 million in bonuses despite rece...

Read Whole Story

Economy Before Turkey

James Warren | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Press Conference, Economy, Obama's Cabinet, Economic Advisors, Austan Goolsbee, Obama Cabinet, Paul Volcker, Barack Obama, President Elect Obama, Politics News
James Warren

At Wednesday's press conference, Obama tried to look confident, not pretentious or precipitous, as he tried to convince us again to do what's almost impossible right now, be patient.

Read Post

What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: New America Foundation, Barton Gellman, Colin Powell, George W. Bush, Obama Way, Ryan Lizza, David Addington, David Plouffe, Barack Obama, Secrecy, Austan Goolsbee, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Jimmy Carter, National Security Bureaucracy, Hillary Clinton, Bill Casey, Scooter Libby, Richard Cheney, Obama-Ism, Angler, Autism, Cheneyism, Cheney, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Obama should look to Cheney to understand how a pro -- even one who so damaged the interests of the nation -- managed power and purpose in government.

Read Post

Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Penny Pritzker, Adam Posen, Alan Murray, James Galbraith, George Soros, Doug & Heidi Rediker, Leo Hindery, Eric Schmidt, Richard Parsons, Tom Gallagher, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Economic Team, Warren Buffet, Kevin Phillips, William Daley, William Donaldson, Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Samuelson, Paul Krugman, Roel Campos, William Bonvillian, Jeffrey Sachs, C. Fred Bergsten, Robert Reich, Antonio Villaraigosa, Joseph Biden, Charlene Barshefsky, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Robert Rubin, Austan Goolsbee, David Bonior, Economic Policy, Rahm Emanuel, Bernard Schwartz, Jason Furhman, Sheila Bair, Anne Mulcahy, Roger Ferguson, Clyde Prestowitz, Sherle Schwenninger, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

Read Post

Jason Furman And Barack Obama

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama Economic Advisor, Furman Bush, Furman Obama, Lynn Sweet, Obama Centrist, Obama Administration, Obama Advisers, Lynn Sweet Furman, Furman Wal-Mart, Austan Goolsbee, Obama Wal-Mart, Barack Obama, Obama Corporate Tax, Furman Bush Economy, Jason Furman, Furman Centrist, Obama Taxes, Furman Obama Economics, Obama Economic Adviser, Home News
Mayhill Fowler

Furman as chief economic adviser tells us little about Obama economics but much about Obama. Furman is young and smart and he actually told the press that "Bush has had some bad luck with the economy."

Read Post

Obama Supporter: Goolsbee Should Clarify NAFTA Comments To Canada

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Austen Goolsbee, Obama NAFTA, Austan Goolsbee, Barack Obama Austan Goolsbee, Obama and NAFTA, Barack Obama NAFTA, Goolsbee, Nafta Canada, Politics News

A bit of a veer off topic on the Obama conference call to press Clinton to drop Mark Penn. Teamsters President James Hoffa, asked about Austan Goolsb...

Read Whole Story

Dowd: You Can't Be Elected President Unless You Prove You're Tough

New York Times | Maureen Dowd | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Dowd Obama, Barack Obama Austen Goolsbee, Obama 2008, Samantha Power, Austan Goolsbee, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Maureen Dowd Barack Obama, 2008 Elections, 2008 Election, Barack Obama Samantha Power, Power, Politics News

I was covered in barbecue sauce, somewhere over Texas, when Barack Obama loped down the aisle of the plane to chat with reporters. I felt guilty, be...

Read Whole Story

Obama Denies Assuring Canada on NAFTA

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama NAFTA, Obama NAFTA, Austan Goolsbee, Obama Canada Embassy, Obama Canada, Obama and NAFTA, Nafta Canada, Nafta, Canada, Politics News

UPDATE: Canada's parliament took up the issue of Obama's position on NAFTA today, with Liberal leaders angrily accusing conservative Prime Minister St...

Read Whole Story

Clinton, Obama Zero In On Economy

Bloomberg | Matthew Benjamin, Indira Lakshmanan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Austan Goolsbee, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Green-Energy Jobs, Business News

Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama and his challenger, Hillary Clinton, are both zeroing in on the economy as the campaign moves to big...

Read Whole Story