Obama Adviser Admits We’re Not Experiencing “Job-Less Recovery” We’re Going Through a “Growth-less Recovery” (Video)Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 10:00 PM Verum Serum caught this speech by former Chair of White House Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer on April 12 of this year. This was after she left the administration. Romer admitted in her speech that they managed to create a “growth-less recovery.” Romer also admits that Barack Obama knew just how bad the economy really was when before he took office because she told him how bad it was.