Sentences with phrase «obama economic team»

The Obama economic team's estimate of what their stimulus would accomplish was equally poor.

I don't necessarily begrudge the massive assistance funneled to the finance sector, but I do decry that the Obama economic team didn't try nearly as hard to help the unemployed, the underemployed, and small businesses.

Not exact matches

Amid high unemployment and sluggish economic growth, the enthusiasm just wasn't there, Team Obama kept hearing.

Levine, a former member of President Obama's economic policy team, notes that almost all political candidates are on her service these days and using it in interesting ways to campaign and connect with potential voters.

Has President Obama or any member of his economic team (in an official capacity) ever claimed that the 2009 stimulus bill was too small?

Uber's research team approached Professor Alan B. Krueger, a Princeton economist who previously was Mr. Obama's chief economic adviser, to conduct a joint survey of more than 600 of the company's drivers.

From 2009 to 2011, he was chief economist to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and a member of President Obama's economic team.

It explains why the president has named only one person who wasn't in the administration in 2009 to a top economic position — Burwell, who served with (and impressed) every other member of Obama's economic team in the Clinton administration.

In interviews with current and former administration officials who served both on and off the economic team, one theme keeps recurring: It's impossible to overstate how formational the experience of the financial crisis was to Obama's presidency.

I've been asked by a number of readers for my opinion on the economic team being put together by the incoming Obama administration.

Upon Summers» departure from the White House, President Obama said, «I will always be grateful that at a time of great peril for our country, a man of Larry's brilliance, experience and judgment was willing to answer the call and lead our economic team.»

He is the only member of President Obama's initial economic team to remain until the end of Obama's first term.

Speaking at the 92nd Street Y, Eliot Spitzer said Mayor Bloomberg is «fundamentally in error» on Wall Street reform; he also said Obama's economic team gives him «much more than pause.»

«It gives me much more than pause,» the disgraced former governor admitted when asked about Obama's economic team.

In a speech at the City Club of Cleveland earlier this morning, House Minority Leader John Boehner reiterated the Republican Party's call for an extension of the Bush tax cuts, criticized the administration's stimulus spending and called for the ouster of President Obama's entire economic team.

Obama and his economic team met for four hours yesterday.

Washington (CNNMoney)- President Obama on Monday nominated Alan Krueger to run his Council of Economic Advisers, moving to fill an important vacancy on an economic team that has undergone a nearly total mEconomic Advisers, moving to fill an important vacancy on an economic team that has undergone a nearly total meconomic team that has undergone a nearly total makeover.

With Austan Goolsbee jumping ship, the turnover of President Obama's economic team is complete, with the exception of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who remains.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama painted a bleak economic picture of the country Saturday, hours before he will meet with his economic team.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Shortly after President Barack Obama painted a bleak economic picture Saturday in his weekly address to the nation, he met with with his economic team to talk strategy and the national budget.

Along with Darling - Hammond, who was the leader of President Obama's transition team on education policy, speakers included: Stanford University Professor Edward H. Haertel, who is chair of the National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment; Jesse Rothstein, associate professor of public policy and economics, University of California - Berkeley and former senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers; and Arizona State University Association Professor Audrey Beardsley.

For weeks, there's been a growing chorus — from the incoming Obama team to community - welfare campaigners and environmental bloggers — pushing for building the economic revival around «green jobs.»

Because this is fundamentally an economic issue, I expect people like Larry Summers to play critical roles in shaping Obama's energy and climate strategy — perhaps bigger roles than most if not all of those on the energy / environment team.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

President - elect Obama has tasked his new economic team with designing an ambitious job - creation initiative focused primarily on infrastructure improvements.