Posted on 06/10/2013 4:52:03 AM PDT by John W
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate longtime adviser Jason Furman to be his new chief White House economist, an administration official said.
Furman, who will replace economist Alan Krueger as chair of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and has advised Obama since his 2008 election campaign.
Furman has been instrumental in formulating administration policies on taxes, the response to the U.S. recession, the formulation of a sweeping healthcare overhaul and efforts to avoid a "fiscal cliff" at the end of last year.
"Furman has been a key adviser to the president and has contributed to most every major proposal on jobs and the economy," said the White House official who declined to be identified. Obama will announce the appointment at 2:10 p.m. EDT.
The appointment is likely a sign that budget and tax fights with Congress will continue to play a high-profile role in White House economic policy.
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Never heard of him. He might be a great person, wonderful guy. But with policies like that, we are in for another 3 years of economic destruction, downturn, depression, dismantling of jobs, ...
Alas.
Has there been even one good choice of nominations or appointments , just one?
Does anyone think for one moment he's appointing people who are not clones or knock-offs of himself?
Leni
My first thought was Mark Furman.
It's interesting that the administration policies on taxes, the response to the U.S. recession, the formulation of a sweeping healthcare overhaul and efforts to avoid a "fiscal cliff" at the end of last year are considered successes by the Obama White House. Not that I doubt they believe that, it's just interesting.
Albeit completely delusional.
He’d be better at economics than this gang by accident.
Baraq changes economic gurus more often than a bad baseball team changes managers.
I used to keep a list but it’s gotten too long to maintain.
I remember back when SlowJoe even had his own Chief Economic Adviser lol.
That is not a qualification.
More of a disqualification.
Bama should replace Holder with Mark Furman. Now that would cause poverty pimps heads to explode.
I’m suprised Barry bothers with an economist. Its not like he ever does anything to improve the economy or create a job outside the govt.
Jason Furman is vermin.
I posted this almost a week ago:
This is another piece of a big part of the IRS crimewave. Not only did Shulman meet with Furman over at the WH, the IRS Chief Council, William Wilkins also met with Furman in mid December 2012:
More background on how the House investigators have requested the hard drives of Wilkins and those of a whole bus load of IRS lawyers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3026877/posts
The investigation is widening, and getting closer to the WH.
Wilkins was also the lawyer that bailed out Jeremiah Wright’s heretical church in Chicago back in the 1990’s I believe.
The Furman family has strong ties to Soros as well. The American Spectator article details those.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3027258/posts?page=7#7
This looks like another in-your-face appointment.
Wilkins is an IRS lawyer whose hard drives have been sought along with another 17 or 18 IRS lawyers. Also, of Shulman’s 157 visits to the WH, at least 6 were with Furman if I recall correctly.
A porkulus guy. What could go wrong?
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