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...In response, Gene Sperling, a White House adviser, wrote on Twitter that “some have a curious obsession with exaggerating the impact” of the stimulus, when high inflation was global....
...Hochberg Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers by John Kay and Mervyn King The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy by Stephanie Kelton Trade Wars Are...
...Economic Dignity Gene Sperling, Penguin, RRP$28 Gene Sperling, chief White House economic adviser to presidents Clinton and Obama, addresses a central question: what is the goal of economic policy?...
...A recent paper by the San Francisco Federal Reserve’s John Williams and Glenn Rudebusch concludes that “faced with high long-term unemployment following the Great Recession, optimal monetary policy would...
...“I hope the tactic of threatening default for budget debates is over, off the table and never to happen again,” said Gene Sperling, the director of the president’s National Economic Council....
...Mr Sperling pointed to some potential tax reform ideas in which such revenue could be raised....
...John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, declared on Sunday it was “time for us to stand and fight” over the US budget....
...“I don’t think anyone quite understands how it gets resolved,” said John Boehner, the speaker of the House of Representatives, on NBC’s Meet the Press....
...John Boehner, the Republican House speaker, countered this week with his own offer to avoid the fiscal cliff, including $800bn in new revenue....
...Gene Sperling, Mr Obama’s top economic adviser, said a large deal could be reached with “well over a $1tn in revenues” – indicating some wiggle room there....
...Elsewhere, Gene Sperling is likely to stay on as head of the National Economic Council, Alan Krueger is only one year into his chairmanship of the Council of Economic Advisers and Mr Obama would probably...
...William Daley, Mr Obama’s chief of staff, used to work for JPMorgan Chase, while Gene Sperling, director of the White House’s national economic council, advised Goldman Sachs in 2008....
...Gene Sperling, the director of the administration’s National Economic Council, said the country needed “bipartisan action” to rise above the bitter haggling of the August budget talks....
...Related links: Political appointees and the revolving door – Felix Salmon Gene Sperling and Wall Street’s Giant Sucking Sound – HBR...
...John Kerry, the Democratic senator, sought to pin blame for the ratings humiliation on conservative Republican activists....
...“John understands this better than virtually anybody.”...
...John Boehner, Republican speaker of the House, said in a statement that this indicated a lack of seriousness on the part of the administration....
...., As he announced the appointment of Gene Sperling as his new top economic adviser, Barack Obama, the US president, said: “The decline in the unemployment rate is positive news but it only underscores...
...Mr Obama’s new economic team certainly bodes well for fiscal hawks, including as it does Jack Lew as budget director and Gene Sperling as head of the National Economic Council....
...The season gave us Ted Sperling’s sterling musical direction in Guys and Dolls ; Martha Plimpton’s sensationally hard-boiled turn in Pal Joey ; and a West Side Story revival fortunate in its women: Karen...
...; and the shot-from-guns movement of chorus dancers John Selya and Ron Todorowski....
...“Conditions now are not dissimilar to 2001, when it took 18 months for valuations to reflect business uncertainties,” Mr Sperling said....
...John McCain’s economics bench is thinner in quality but, as long as Phil Gramm were not included, it would be equally welcome....
...It also came amid growing Republican concern about the sometimes confused economic message of John McCain, Mr Obama’s rival for the presidency....
...The contrast with John McCain, for example, or John Edwards, who permit relatively fluid media access and who stray, sometimes hazardously, from their talking points, is sharp....
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