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About Keith Hennessey About this blog About the National Economic Council About my work in the White House Photo credits Technical credits About Keith Hennessey I served as the senior White House economic advisor to President George W. Bush.  My job was to coordinate economic policy for the President, including macroeconomic issues, financial markets and [...]

President Bush spoke at the Manhattan Institute today on financial markets and the world economy. This speech is a prelude to the financial summit the President will host this weekend.  I’ll write separately about the Summit, and about the elements of today’s speech that talk about principles for reform. I want to draw your attention [...]

The President delivers his State of the Union address this evening, beginning just after 9 PM.  We typically release “fact sheets” along with the address. Since the big document is 36 pages long, we also have versions of the different component fact sheets on whitehouse.gov.  Here are the economic ones: Economy Budget Free trade Energy [...]

The President left this morning for a nine-day trip to Europe. Q:         Where is he going? A:         (1) Prague, Czech Republic.  (2) Heiligendamm, Germany, for the G-8 meetings.  (3) Jurata and Gdansk, Poland.  (4) Rome and the Vatican.  (5) Tirana, Albania.  (6)  Sofia, Bulgaria. The G-8 meetings are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  There will actually [...]