meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 11/25/2008
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I have to disagree with Ezra Klein : Obama's got a much, much better economics team than Bush started out with. I agree with his endorsement of Glenn Hubbard. But Paul O'Neill wasn't exactly an a-lister even before he turned out to have fantastic(ally entertaining!) verbal ...
eschatonblog.com - 11/24/2008
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... . But Obama's economic advisers, particularly former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, are much better and have much more stature than the economic team Bush started with, notes economist Megan McArdle . If Obama follows through on his promise to go through the federal budget "line by line," he'll do what Republicans only talk about and will thus destroy the GOP's fiscal conservative brand, writes ...
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