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Managing Economic Team Will Be a Challenge for Obama

 

Published 11/27/2008 by David Cho and Alec MacGillis at Wash Post Obama Administration

Barack Obama's appointment yesterday of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker to the growing team advising him on the nation's deepening financial crisis only heightens a central leadership challenge the president-elect will face: how to manage a stable packed with big brains and bigger... (link)

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