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Summers, Rubin, Schmidt to Attend Economic Meeting With Obama

 
President-elect Barack Obama will hold a news conference Friday following a meeting with his top economic advisers, aides said. Meeting attendees include former Treasury secretaries Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin , ex-Federal Reserve Chief Paul Volcker and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt . Here’s the press release: President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden will hold a meeting with the Transition Economic Advisory Board tomorrow, Friday, November 7, 2008. There will be a pooled photo spray for the meeting. The press conference will be held at 1:30pm central at the Hilton Chicago following the meeting. The members of the Transition Economic Advisory Board are below and all will participate in tomorrow’s meeting. -David Bonior (Member House of Representatives 1977-2003) -Warren Buffett (Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway)-will participate via speakerphone -Roel Campos (former SEC Commissioner) -William Daley (Chairman of the Midwest, JP Morgan Chase; ... (link)

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