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Paul Volcker is latest to join Obama's economic team

 

Published 11/27/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

As more dire financial news arrives, the president-elect adds the former Fed chairman to his fast-developing roster of advisors. > Amid fresh signs of financial troubles, President-elect Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he was tapping a seasoned figure from past economic struggles to head a new advisory panel dedicated to creating jobs and stabilizing the markets. (link)

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