Christina Romer, Obama's Cheif Economic Adviser, Resigning

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By Kirk Victor

Christina Romer, chairwoman of Pres. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, has decided to resign, according to a source familiar with her plans.

Romer, an economics professor at the University of California (Berkeley) before taking the key admin post, did not respond to repeated calls to her office.

"She has been frustrated," a source with insight into the WH economics team said. "She doesn't feel that she has a direct line to the president. She would be giving different advice than Larry Summers , who does have a direct line to the president."

More: http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/08/romer_to_leave.php

Very sorry to see this. However, who can blame her?

[DJ13]

1. Summers gets his way

again

[Catshrink]

2. It's certainly a pattern.

They don't seem to listen to what they don't want to hear.

[midnight]

3. Larry Summers is overinflated in his thinking of men and their

greater authority of all things numbers.

[amborin]

4. K&R Summers was a protogee of Reagan and reaganomics....

[QC]

5. Oh well, girls aren't any good at math anyway. n/t

[amborin]

6. ps: remember Summers' "let 'em eat pollution" recommended shipping US toxic waste to low income

nations whose short life expectancy meant (according to Summers) that they would die before they developed cancer from the
carcinogenic toxic waste we were to ship them

[Born_A_Truman]

7. Interesting

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657504575411973910324964.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The post, she said in an interview Thursday, "was definitely as hard as I thought it ever would have been."

"I never anticipated the amount of the contact I'd have with the president," she added. "If anyone had told me that I'd meet the president of the free world every day, I never would have believed it."

In internal White House circles, Ms. Romer occasionally clashed with Lawrence Summers, the Obama adviser and former Harvard University president and Treasury secretary. But on Thursday, she said, "If anyone had told me that I'd come to view Larry Summers as one of my dearest friends, I never would have believed it. But I do."

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8. Funny, she'd be leaving such idyllic circumstances, huh? nt