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Does Obama's reported economics team inspire confidence? Does his stimulus plan go far enough?
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Does Obama's reported economics team inspire confidence? Does his stimulus plan go far enough?
politico.com - 11/24/2008
Does Obama's reported economics team inspire confidence? Does his stimulus plan go far enough?
— politico.com — I have no problem with Barack Obama's picks of Tim Geithner and Peter Orszag for Treasury Secretary... and OMB Director respectively. As I have written , Geithner is very smart, has a congenial manner and is well acquainted with the current efforts to ... (more) Does Obama's reported economics team inspire confidence? ...

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politico.com - 11/24/2008
Does Obama's reported economics team inspire confidence? Does his stimulus plan go far enough?
— politico.com — Obama's immediate challenge is to fill the leadership vacuum created by a lame-duck president with historically-low approval... ratings who seems to have lost interest in his job (at this writing, he's out of the country) and who's disappeared from the ... (more) Does Obama's reported economics team inspire confidence? ...

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The Obama Economic Team And Plan . . . Or "When Yousefzadeh And Reich Fight"
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... [image] [image] The Obama Economic Team And Plan . . . Or "When Yousefzadeh And Reich Fight" Posted by: Pejman Yousefzadeh Monday, November 24, 2008 at 12:46AM CST 0 Comments It has been the subject of the weekend over at the Arena. My take is here . It is regrettable, of course, that in the course of giving his answers, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich saw the need to get gratuitously nasty . As I write, his nastiness was entirely undeserved . Of course, I should note that the former Labor Secretary has a ...

The Obama Economic Team And Plan . . . Or "When Yousefzadeh And Reich Fight"
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — It has been the subject of the weekend over at the Arena. My take is here . It is regrettable, of course, that in the course of giving his answers, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich saw the need to get gratuitously nasty . As I write, his nastiness was entirely undeserved . Of course, I should note that the former Labor Secretary has a penchant for fiction .

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