Obama’s Economic Team
Tags: Christina Romer, Lawrence Summers, Melody Barnes, Obama Economic Team, Peter Orszag, portrait of the day, sketch of the day, Timothy Geithner
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Obama unveiled his economic team yesterday. The starting Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, from the University of North Carolina and University of Michigan, Melody Barnes. At Secretary of the Treasury, from Dartmouth College and John Hopkins, Timothy Geithner. Starting Director of the White House Budget Office, from Princeton University and London School of Economics, Peter Orszag. At Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, from the College of William and Mary and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Christina Romer. Starting at Director of the National Economic Council, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Lawrence Summers
The stock market has rallied 900 points in two sessions.
