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Obama taps Berkeley professor as senior economist (Christina Romer)

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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-24-08 11:41 AM
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Obama taps Berkeley professor as senior economist (Christina Romer)
Edited on Mon Nov-24-08 11:41 AM by Roland99
Source: Reuters (via Yahoo)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Christina Romer, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, as the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, a Democratic source told Reuters on Monday.

The pick is to be announced at an 11 a.m. CST (12 p.m. EST) news conference, where Obama will also unveil his selection of Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary and Lawrence Summers as head of the White House National Economic Council.

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Romer is a macroeconomist and specialist on the effects of fiscal policy and on monetary shocks. She has written extensively on the Great Depression in the 1930s.

...

Romer is also a member of the panel at the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is considered the nation's arbiter of recessions and economic recovery periods. (Reporting by Caren Bohan and Jeff Mason; Editing by Doina Chiacu)



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081124/pl_nm/us_usa_obama_...

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   Help Wanted! Teaching MBA.! Apply @ Online Obama school of Economics  BunkerHill24   Nov-24-08 11:54 AM   #1 
   What's that mean?  skooooo   Nov-24-08 12:11 PM   #2 
   Don't forget, John Yoo teaches there  BrotherBuzz   Nov-24-08 01:07 PM   #7 
   What?  Alter Ego   Nov-24-08 12:15 PM   #3 
   She's waaay too obsessed with tax for my liking - I was hoping for a Keynesian  TrogL   Nov-24-08 12:19 PM   #4 
   Do we have any Keynesians?  lurky   Nov-24-08 01:24 PM   #8 
   She's an incredible choice ...  RoyGBiv   Nov-24-08 12:21 PM   #5 
   looking good...we just may have a chance to get out of this shit  madrchsod   Nov-24-08 01:01 PM   #6 
 
BunkerHill24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-24-08 11:54 AM
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1. Help Wanted! Teaching MBA.! Apply @ Online Obama school of Economics

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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Nov-24-08 12:11 PM
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2. What's that mean?

:shrug:


Hey if the guy's from Berkeley, chances are he's pretty liberal!

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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-24-08 01:07 PM
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7. Don't forget, John Yoo teaches there
liberal, he isn't.

Oh, Romer is of the female persuasion. ;)

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Alter Ego (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-24-08 12:15 PM
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3. What?

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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-24-08 12:19 PM
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4. She's waaay too obsessed with tax for my liking - I was hoping for a Keynesian

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lurky (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-24-08 01:24 PM
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8. Do we have any Keynesians?
It would be nice to at least have a couple there for balance of opinion..

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5. She's an incredible choice ...

Very pleased with this.


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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-24-08 01:01 PM
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6. looking good...we just may have a chance to get out of this shit
one thing about this president --he`s intelligent enough to understand what they are saying and has the wisdom to make the correct decision.

i can`t wait till jan 20th ....oh happy day!

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