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Michelle Obama's Denver Visit: First Lady Speaks To Young Girls About Mentoring, Hard Work

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver

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DENVER — First lady Michelle Obama doesn't put much stock in standardized tests. "Don't let those tests defeat you. Don't let those tests define ...

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Christina Romer: Public Plan Can Reduce Costs, No Evidence Yet On Triggers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

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One of President Obama's senior advisers argued on Monday that a national public plan would have a noticeable impact on lowering the costs of the heal...

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Romer Thinks "Consumers" Should Take Share Of Responsibility For Lehman Collapse

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

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Hey kids, in case you haven't figured it out, yesterday was the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' epic collapse, touching off Wall Street's brilliant swan dive into a dung heap of its own making.

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GDP Declines 1 Percent In 2Q, Better Than Expected

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

WASHINGTON — Further evidence the recession is ending came in a report Thursday confirming that the economy shrank at an annual rate of just 1 p...

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White House Working With Congress To Extend Unemployment Benefits: Obama Adviser

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics

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The White House will "absolutely" work with Congress to extend unemployment benefits for the more than million Americans who could lose that financial...

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Christina Romer On How Health Care Reform Will Save Us Money

The Washington Post | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday, I wrote a couple of posts on the report issued by the White House's Council of Economic Advisers laying out "The Economic Case for Health R...

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McCain Adviser: Obama Burdened By Campaign Pledge On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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An ongoing lobby effort to get the White House to fund health care reform by ending the tax breaks for employers who provide coverage to their workers...

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Christina Romer Sees Unemployment Rising Until 2010

The New York Times | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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President Obama's chief economics forecaster said on Sunday that the nation's unemployment rate was likely to keep rising until 2010, even if the econ...

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Economist-On-Economist Violence In Obama Administration?

CQ Politics | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

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On Monday, as I was heading to the White House for the daily briefing, I ran into one of President Barack Obama's senior economic advisers. This perso...

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Obama Economic Board Has Yet To Hold Public Meeting

Politico | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

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Six weeks after President Barack Obama appointed a blue-ribbon panel to help him dig America out of its economic crisis, the board has yet to hold an ...

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Christina Romer Gets it Wrong: "We Need Banks to Lend Like Crazy"

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics

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"Lending like crazy" is exactly what helped trigger the global financial crisis -- and reflating those trends would be a major mistake if that is what the Obama administration is pushing.

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Fox News Misleads Viewers With Biden Splice (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

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ThinkProgress made an excellent catch today, of the sort that I'm frankly surprised are still available to make, given the increased capacity that the...

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Christina Romer: Fundamentals Of The Economy Are Sound

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The economy is fundamentally sound despite the temporary "mess" it's in, the White House said Sunday in the kind of upbeat assessme...

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Christina Romer: Obama Not Overwhelmed By Bad Economy

AP | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A key economics adviser to President Barack Obama says the administration is moving methodically to restore American business healt...

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Romer Seems To Break With Geithner On Cause Of Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

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Christina Romer, at a speech at the Brookings Institution Monday afternoon, appeared to give support to critics of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...

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Does Obama Know What He Is Doing?

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

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Let's not lose sight of the fact that, like Cheney, these political and business leaders all think they know what they are doing.

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Obama Adviser: Stimulus Won't Be Sexist, Not Just Help For "Burly Men"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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The Obama transition team put out a video on Sunday detailing the job creation components of their proposed stimulus legislation. Putting aside, for ...

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Wise Men Say Recession is a Year Old

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business

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The seven "Wise Men" announced today that the economy entered a recession back in December 2007. The "Wise Men" are seven economists on the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee.

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Team Obama: Transformation, Transparency & Trust

Christine Pelosi | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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This team inspires trust due to their credentials, experience, and unity around Obama's core economic philosophy -- that America is built on a strong, vibrant, thriving middle class.

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Obama's Economic Team: Reactions Roundup

HuffPost | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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President-elect Barack Obama officially announced the key players in his economic team just this morning, but already economics and politics sites h...

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Obama Appoints Berkeley Professor Christina Romer to Chair Council of Economic Advisers

Rob Kall | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

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Romer wrote, if not the book, at least the chapter for Encyclopedia Britannica on the Great Depression.

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Christina Romer: Obama's Chair Of The Council Of Economic Advisers

HuffPost | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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Check Back For Updates Christina Romer, University of California-Berkeley economics professor, will be tapped to be President-elect Barack Obama's c...

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