I like Austan Goolsbee.he is a real honest fellow. I wish him luck.

[Historic NY]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000291/Obamas-economic-adviser-Austan-Goolsbee-resigns-White-House.html

[KamaAina]

1. The best of the lot by far

in terms of O's economic team.

Now Geithner & Co. have free rein. :scared:

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. He's a freidmanite shock-doctrine U of C professor.

Good riddance. Sadly, there's an unlimited supply of people just like him in the administration.

[frazzled]

3. He was trained at Yale and MIT and ...

is not part of the economics department of the University of Chicago, the domain of Friedman (who stopped teaching there in the 1970s, by the way). Goolsbee rather taught at the Business School, and is hardly a Friedmanite.

I hope you don't apply the heebie-jeebie U of C curse to, say, Bernie Sanders, who actually graduated from that school. Or Seymour Hersh, or Susan Sontag, or others.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. We knew what he was about in 2008

While campaigning in Ohio, Mr. Obama has harshly criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement, which many Ohioans blame for an exodus of jobs. He agreed last week at a debate with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that the United States should consider leaving the pact if it could not be renegotiated.

On Monday, a memorandum surfaced, obtained by The Associated Press, showing that Austan D. Goolsbee, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago who is Mr. Obama's senior economic policy adviser, met officials last month at the Canadian consulate in Chicago.

According to the writer of the memorandum, Joseph De Mora, a political and economic affairs consular officer, Professor Goolsbee assured them that Mr. Obama's protectionist stand on the trail was ''more reflective of political maneuvering than policy.''

In retrospect, Goolsbee was obviously right, griping about NAFTA was just a head fake.

[Capn Sunshine]

9. too late. That's been taken as gospel here for two years

Please stop trying to inject truth into the Obama hate fest.

[boston bean]

6. I watched him on some show, literally made my skin crawl. might have been John Stewart. nt

[enuegii]

5. Oh, Austan Goolsbee! I thought you meant Argyle Goolsby!

He's running for President, ya know.

[Phx_Dem]

7. "There are alot of people in Washington who's trays are not in the upright and locked position."

Goolsbee last night on Daily Show.

:rofl::rofl:

[Historic NY]

8. he's got that spot on right..