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Stiglitz
Talking Points Memo —
... I have to agree with Michael Hirsh on this one. I'm fine, probably more than fine, with Obama's economics appointees. But there's one problem. Where's ...
Remainders: Harvard Law
Ben Smith's Blog —
... the Clinton-to-State transition team, and mostly Huma.
Kissinger calls Obama's national security policy team "extraordinary," in a good way.
Exiting Bush and entering Obama staffers are getting along, not removing "O"s from keyboards, and Burton will reportedly be Gibbs' deputy. (I got a cryptic response from Gibbs when I asked for confirmation of this.)
Blumenthal says nobody predicted a turnout of 140 million.
Michael Hirsch says Stiglitz should be on Obama's economic policy team.
Adam Serwer ...
Whither Stiglitz?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
From Newsweek: OK, enough with the Obamamania already. I have a major bone to pick with our all-praised president-elect. Where, Mr. Obama, is Joseph Stiglitz? Most pundits have pretty much gone ga-ga over your economic team: The brilliant Larry Summers as head of your National Economic Council. The judicious Tim Geithner as Treasury secretary. The august Paul Volcker as chair of the newly formed Economic Recovery Advisory Board. But lost amid the cascades of ticker tape is the fact that, astonishingly, you didn't hire the one expert who's been right about the ...
Frank Rich Mention of Tanta
Calculated Risk —
... In our current financial quagmire, there have also been those who had the wisdom to sound alarms before Rubin, Summers or Geithner did. Among them were not just economists like Joseph Stiglitz ...
Will Krugman and Stiglitz get invited to the jobs summit?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... The President famously snubbed Stiglitz and Krugman at the beginning of his administration, when we were desperately trying to figure out how to avoid the country collapsing into a second Great Depression. And while Krugman was a Hillary supporter - as if that should matter when trying to determine how to avoid an economic collapse - Stiglitz was an early, and vocal, Obama supporter. Finally, after much criticism, the President ...
