Alan S. Blinder has been on the Princeton faculty since 1971, taking time off from January 1993 through January 1996 for service in the U.S. government—first as a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers, and then as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In addition to his academic writings [books, academic articles] and his best-selling introductory textbook, he has written many newspaper and magazine columns and op-eds and, in recent years, has presented a monthly television commentary on PBS’s Nightly Business Report [PBS commentaries]. He also appears regularly on CNBC. Dr. Blinder is a past president of the Eastern Economic Association, past vice president of the American Economic Association, and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Isn't this one of the economic geniuses from the Clinton days? Google him and you will find him linked to all sorts of liberal causes and philosophies (like being a signer of an academic petition to increase the minimum wage... after all every economists knows that all you have to do is force employers to pay more money and you will create more wealth... and jobs for that matter!).. Nothing he says is apolitical, this is a shot across the bow -- prob Hillary's upcoming weekly theme.
Nice catch.
It's always easier to FReak out, however, than to think out.