Tag Archives: transition

Dr. Goolsbee gets it wrong on the auto loans

This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace moderated a discussion about the auto industry.  One of his guests was Dr. Austan Goolsbee, who is a Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist on the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
I want to focus on some incorrect and inflammatory statements by [...]

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The transition, my new role, and the mailing list archive

Q:  This blog launched in late March of 2009, and yet there are more than 40 posts dated in 2007 and 2008.  Why?
A:  While working for President Bush, I had a mailing list titled White House Economics, which I used to explain the President’s economic policies.  This blog and the associated mailing list are successors [...]

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The wrong way to address climate change

The Senate is now debating a climate change bill, typically referred to as the “Lieberman-Warner” bill, referring to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Sen. John Warner (R-VA).  Technically, we think they’ll end up considering a slightly different version of that bill, offered by the Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Barbara [...]

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