blogs.wsj.com - 11/24/2008
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Text of President-elect Obama’s remarks introducing his new economic team.
President-Elect Barack Obama
Economic Team Announcement
Monday, November 24, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
Good morning.
The news this past week, including this mornings news about Citigroup, has made it even more clear that we are facing an economic crisis of historic proportions. Our financial markets are under stress. New home purchases in October were the lowest in half a century. Recently, more than half a ...
money.cnn.com - 11/24/2008
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President-elect Barack Obama named
key members of his administration's economic team Monday, including
New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner as his Treasury Secretary nominee and former Harvard President ...
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Obama names his economic dream team - Nov. 24, 2008
portfolio.com - 11/24/2008
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portfolio.com —
On Saturday, the WSJ knew exactly who would
be joining Tim Geithner in Barack Obama's economic team:
Congressional Budget Office director Peter Orszag will be Mr. Obama's budget director. Jacob Lew, a former Clinton budget director, will head ...
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Obama introduces his economic team
Political Animal —
... a thriving Main Street." [...] Details of the plan are still being worked out by his economic team, Obama said, but he hopes to sign the two-year, nationwide plan shortly after taking office January 20. The president-elect said Monday that he has asked his newly formed economic team to develop recommendations for his plan and to consult with Congress, the current administration and the Federal Reserve on immediate economic developments over the next two months. To that end, Obama announced his selection of Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury; Lawrence Summers as the ...
The Emerging Obama Administration
Newshoggers.com —
... Obama's economic team, announced today, includes Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury; Lawrence Summers as the Director of our National Economic Council; Christina Romer as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors; and Melody Barnes as Director of the Domestic Policy Council. Only the ...
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SCSUScholars —
...I can't really argue with a single pick of the Obama economic team. The background of Melody Barnes probably should concern me, but I don't know enough about her yet to formulate an opinion. (Look, it could have been Robert Reich. Thank God for small favors, as it were.) I'd say Christina Romer's background on the Great Depression will be useful, but I thought that of Bernanke too, and that hasn't gone so well. Unlike the Wall Street Journal, I think it's fine that the Sancho Panza of the Clinton Treasury gets a turn in the big chair. He and ...
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