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A Panel of Pros

Jonathan Tisch | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York

Read More: J.P. Morgan Chase, Penny Pritzker, Cafta, Marty Lipton, Bill Daley, Regulation, Free Trade, Economic Recovery, Nafta, Alternative Investment Management, Recession, New York News
Jonathan Tisch

Where will we end up in a new regulated environment? Jonathan Tisch asks some of those closest to President Obama: Bill Daley, lawyer Marty Lipton and Penny Pritzker.

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Billionaire Obama Donors Fighting Obama Legislation

bloomberg.com | John Lippert and Holly Rosenkrantz | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Neil Bluhm, Barack Obama, Lester Crown, Penny Pritzker, Obama Billionaires, Pritzker, Politics News

Three Chicago billionaires who helped fund President Barack Obama's election campaign are fighting legislation he backs that would make it easier for ...

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

FireDogLake | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Penny Pritzker Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Penny Pritzker, Penny Pritzker Efca, Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Employee Free Choice Act, Barack Obama Penny Pritzker, Economy, Obama Employee Free Choice Act, Efca, Obama Penny Pritzker, Politics News

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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Bill Richardson Withdraws Commerce Bid -- Time to Call Leo Hindery

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: High Wage Jobs, Penny Pritzker, John McCain Economic Policy, Labor, New Mexico, Economy, Leo Hindery, Department of Commerce, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Commerce Secretary, President Obama, Bill Richardson Withdraws Nomination, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson, Obama's Economic Team, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Leo Hindery, who was an economic advisor to the Obama campaign and authored the interesting book It Takes a CEO, is a real stand out who the Obama team should consider for Commerce.

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Obama's Inauguration: Pritzker, Rogers And Daley To Be Co-Chairs

Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 12.25.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Inauguration Events, Penny Pritzker, Obama Inauguration, President Obama, John Rogers, Bill Daley, Barack Obama Inauguration, Obama Inauguration Committee, Obama Inauguration Day, Chicago News

Chicagoans Penny Pritzker, John Rogers and William Daley will be among the Obama inauguration co-chairs, with the Presidential Inauguration Committe...

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Pritzker Saved Obama Much Embarrasssment By Bowing Out Of Commerce

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Corporate Ceo, Commerce Secretary, Obama Campaign Finance Chair, Barack Obama, Subprime Lending, Presidential Appointments, Superior Bank, Penny Pritzker, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Pritzker did Obama, herself, and probably the thousands of other bilked homeowners who still blame her family bank for their misery, a favor by bowing out of Commerce. That is if indeed she did bow out.

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Penny Pritzker: Commerce Secretary?

Huffington Post | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Commerce Department, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Penny Pritzker, Obama's Commerce Secretary, Commerce Secretary, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

UPDATE: Penny Pritzker has withdrawn herself from consideration for the Commerce Secretary post. She emailed the following statement to the Chicago S...

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Obama Friends To Shakeup Washington Social Scene

Crain's Chicago Business | Shia Kapos | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Social Life, Valerie Jarrett, DC Social Scene, Penny Pritzker, President Obama, Washington Social Circuit, Obama Entertaining, Washington Social Scene, David Plouffe, Buffy Cafritz, David Axelrod, Desiree Rogers, John Rogers, Linda Johnson Rice, Neal Zucker, Chicago News

As a new first family prepares to replace the drapes in the White House, their Washington neighbors are abuzz about the changes coming to what has bec...

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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.

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Obama's Cabinet: Which Chicagoans Are Washington-Bound?

Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Valerie Jarrett, Arne Duncan, Barack Obama Cabinet, Penny Pritzker, David Axelrod, Obama Chicago, Eric Whitaker, Robert Rivkin, Bill Daley, Martin Nesbitt, Carole Brown, Chicago News

The buzzing and maneuvering and pondering has been percolating for many weeks -- unmistakably, if quietly. But now that the winner of the White House...

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McCain and Obama's Wall Street Greed Team

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bailout, Barack Obama, Subprime Lending, Presidential Race, Penny Pritzker, Financial Houses, Gop, Democrats, Wall Street, John McCain, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout Outrage, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Team Obama has matched and in some cases exceeded Team McCain in the mad dash to bundle cash from Wall Street with one even more troubling note.

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Big Money Behind New School Reform Group

Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago School Funding, CPS Funding, Chicago Schools Funding, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Schools, Penny Pritzker, Chicago News

A business-backed group that Chicago school officials say has provided "seed capital" to spark reform here is about to launch a drive to raise up to $...

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All the President's Networks

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: John W. Rogers Jr., Craig Robinson, Bill Clinton, Social Networking, Penny Pritzker, Marty Nesbitt, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Wasilla, Abner Mikva, Nepotism, Wasilla High School, Politics News
Bradley W. Bloch

A close examination of virtually any administration will uncover a tangled skein of personal, political, and professional connections, often reaching back decades.

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Top Obama Fundraiser Helped Run Failed Subprime Lender

WSJ | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Subprime Mortgage Meltdown, Obama Mortgage Crisis, Penny Pritzker, Superior Bank, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Obama Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama Penny Pritzker, Politics News

For the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure in a corner of their giant...

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