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Some Troubling Names on President Obama's Economic Advisory Board
The Provocateur ^ | 02/08/2009 | Mike Volpe

Posted on 02/08/2009 8:17:29 PM PST by fiscon1

The economy is so dire that President Obma has created an economic advisory board.

Austan Goolsbee as staff director and chief economist; William H. Donaldson, SEC Chair, 2003-05; Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and CEO, TIAA-CREF; Robert Wolf, chairman and CEO, UBS; David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University; Mark T. Gallogly, founder and managing partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P.; Penny Pritzker, chairwoman, Pritzker Realty Group; Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO, GE (parent company of NBC News); John Doerr, partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; Jim Owens, chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc.; Monica C. Lozano, publisher & chief executive officer, La Opinion; Charles E. Phillips, Jr., president, Oracle; Anna Burger, chairwoman, Change to Win; Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO; Laura D'Andrea Tyson, dean, Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley; Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, Harvard.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bho2009; bho44; bhoeconomy; clintonistas; economy; leftists; tiaacref

1 posted on 02/08/2009 8:17:29 PM PST by fiscon1
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William H. Donaldson, SEC Chair, 2003-05; Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and CEO, TIAA-CREF; Robert Wolf, chairman and CEO, UBS; David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University; Mark T. Gallogly, founder and managing partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P.; Penny Pritzker, chairwoman, Pritzker Realty Group; Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO, GE (parent company of NBC News); John Doerr, partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; Jim Owens, chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc.; Monica C. Lozano, publisher & chief executive officer, La Opinion; Charles E. Phillips, Jr., president, Oracle; Anna Burger, chairwoman, Change to Win; Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO; Laura D’Andrea Tyson, dean, Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley; Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, Harvard

OK FReepers, how many of these besides Laura Tyson are Clinton rejects, er, I mean, Clinton RETREADS. ????


2 posted on 02/08/2009 8:20:11 PM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: fiscon1

And we wonder why they are coming up with socialist ideas!

This is the perfect scenarion to get evrything the Libs have waited for all these years - except popularity for Porkulus is fading fast


3 posted on 02/08/2009 8:20:43 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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Richard L. Trumka - In 1994, President Clinton named him to the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform to represent the interests of working families.


4 posted on 02/08/2009 8:25:38 PM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: fiscon1

It looks like Zero is going to create his own private military & his own government.


5 posted on 02/08/2009 8:32:55 PM PST by LADY J
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To: fiscon1

Penny Pritzker caught my eye. I think she was part of the campaign, and before that a bigwig at Fannie or Freddie.


6 posted on 02/08/2009 8:45:01 PM PST by lacrew (Obama and cabinet: Fool and the Gang)
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To: fiscon1

....do we really need to pay a bunch of “experts” to tell us to raise taxes when liberal groups are willing to do it for free?


7 posted on 02/08/2009 8:46:21 PM PST by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: lacrew

Wasn’t she the one who hosted the Iranian nutjob here in the U.S.?


8 posted on 02/08/2009 8:52:24 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Henchster

Hasn’t Immelt presided over GE stock in the dumper?


9 posted on 02/08/2009 8:54:48 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: fiscon1

Don’t forget Buffett bailed GE out a couple of months ago AND GE makes the wind turbines Obama and Pelosi wants to unleash around the country — oh, and Pelosi bought into the Texas Billionaires Wind scheme last summer — both financially and emotionally.


10 posted on 02/08/2009 8:55:43 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: lacrew

She was involved with Superior Bank when it folded... she is a very wealthy woman — 135th in America... and very close friend of Bambi.


11 posted on 02/08/2009 8:58:56 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Henchster

Can’t we just take Obama back for store credit?


12 posted on 02/08/2009 9:01:09 PM PST by aruanan
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To: anniegetyourgun

You’re right! She had a sit down with the Iranian leader. It happened right after the Messiah got his first high level security briefing. It gave me the willies.


13 posted on 02/08/2009 9:16:39 PM PST by lacrew (Obama and cabinet: Fool and the Gang)
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To: fiscon1

Well who did you expect him to have: Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Larry Kudlowe,Mr._ Laffer, G. Edward Griffin, and Byron York?


14 posted on 02/08/2009 9:47:20 PM PST by JSDude1 (R(epublicans) In Name Only SUCK; D(emocrats) In Name Only are worth their weight..)
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To: JSDude1

lol....


15 posted on 02/08/2009 9:55:33 PM PST by Hildy
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To: fiscon1
Audit them all!
16 posted on 02/08/2009 9:57:41 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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