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Opinion: One Cheer for the Unemployment Number

The sharp drop in the unemployment rate to 9 percent should be treated as good news. Any drop, after all, is welcome. But just how good this news is depends entirely on how low your expectations are for this economic recovery. After all, the unemployment rate has been at or above 9 percent for 21 months now -- a grim...

Opinion: White House Exits Normal? Not By a Long Shot

(Oct. 13) -- It has become a mantra in the news media these days to include in every story about the departure of another high-level Obama White House official the cautionary declaration that "it is normal for appointees to leave after a president's first two years." The unspoken message here is that this is not a case of...

Meet Austan Goolsbee, Obama's Hilarious New Economic Chair

(Sept. 10) -- Austan Goolsbee, President Barack Obama's pick to replace Council of Economic Advisers Chairwoman Christina Romer, was once described by Washington Post columnist George F. Will as "a masochist with a sense of humor." The description is apt for one of Washington, D.C.'s most colorful personalities, the man...

Who Has What It Takes to Replace Rahm Emanuel?

WASHINGTON (Sept. 8) -- Let the guessing game begin. The news that Chicago "Mayor for Life" Richard Daley would not run for a seventh term was a shocker. Instant speculation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a former congressman from Chicago, may step down to run for the job was not. White House spokesman...

'Macroeconomic Policymaking Is Incredibly Hard': 4 Key Takeaways From Christina Romer's Parting Thoughts

(Sept. 2) -- Christina Romer, outgoing chairwoman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, gave a farewell address Wednesday at Washington's National Press Club. Romer will step down from her position Friday after 20 months and plans to return to her tenured position as an economics professor at the...

Christina Romer News From the Web

05/13/12 EU's Financial Crisis Doesn't End At Nations' Borders Source: NPR In the streets and public squares across Spain last night, the cries of a mass movement â calling themselves the Indignados â rang out, railing against austerity measures imposed by the European Union.
04/23/12 Christina Romer Knows Tax Hikes Will Kill the Recovery Source: Forbes A powerful analysis by President Barack Obama 's first Chair of his Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) indicates the President's proposed tax increases would kill the economic recovery and throw nearly 1 million Americans out of work.

Background on Christina Romer

Christina D. Romer (née Duckworth; born December 25, 1958) is the Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration.

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