samefacts.com - 11/25/2008
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November 24, 2008 Obama's Economic Team: The Missing Man Posted by Jonathan Zasloff Where in the world is Joseph Stiglitz ? Has he been kidnapped to an undisclosed location? And no--it is not an answer to say that he gets into fights with Larry Summers. That would disqualify large ...
blogs.cfr.org - 11/24/2008
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As Calculated Risk notes, before moving to New
York I worked for Mr. Geithner at both the...
Treasury and the IMF. Mr. Geithner was, by the end of the 1990s, in charge of Treasury’s International Affairs division, so almost everyone who worked ...
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A new economic team
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Jonathan Zasloff is being very interesting over at the Reality Based Community.
Angry Bear —
... He asks "Where is Joe Stiglitz ?" I add what about Paul Krugman. Look the problem is simple, Stiglitz is not a team player. You ask and Summers is he a team player ? The answer is clear -- yes if the team is an administration. If you hire Stiglitz he *will* embarrass you later by resigning and criticizing you. ...
More Obama entertainment
AtlanticBlog —
... the Clinton administration. This is not altogether a good thing, since Clinton foreign policy consisted mostly of avoiding problems so that the next president would have to deal with them, and Eric Holder could easily be as bad as Janet Reno (remember the 21 children killed in the ATF created Waco fiasco?). But it is not the lunacy the nutroots want. Herewith another potential bit of good cheer. Jonathan Zasloff at the humorously titled Reality Based Community is worried that Joseph Stiglitz is not part of Obama's economic team . Those of us who live in the real world are ...
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