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...Orszag remains close to several prominent past Democratic policymakers including Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner and Jason Furman....
...Not surprisingly, the respected Harvard economist Jason Furman stated on Twitter: “I have yet to find a blemish in this jobs report. I’ve never before seen such a wonderful set of economic data”....
...[Green stimulus efforts] are more likely to succeed if they leverage the much more sizeable funds in the hands of investors,” says Richard Newell, president and chief executive of Resources for the Future...
...“I looked through it the other day and realised no one imagined this situation,” said Mr Furman. “Mnuchin has no road map.”...
...A spokesperson for Richard Neal, the Democratic chairman of the House ways and means committee, said he “supports the idea of cheques and getting money out to people as soon as possible . . . we’re looking...
...Jason Furman, a Harvard professor who was the top White House economic adviser to President Barack Obama, has also argued that Congress should pass legislation to pay each American adult $1,000 and each...
...Thus, the pre-crisis monetary policy, aimed at raising inflation, has now created the opposite: a deflationary debt overhang that works via what Richard Koo of Nomura calls “balance-sheet deflation”....
...Prof Furman has long argued that there are intrinsic links between a lack of competition and inequality but says there is now mounting evidence to support his thesis....
...said Mr Furman....
...As Jason Furman points out, Navarro is in a small minority on trade: “99.99999 per cent of economists agree,” says Fruman. "The rest are Peter Navarro”....
...Other readables Richard Milne reports on Norway’s general election campaign, where rightwing populists are defending their place in government....
...Other readables Noah Smith interviews Richard Florida about the downside of superstar cities....
...Meanwhile Jason Furman, Hassett’s immediate predecessor at the CEA, identifies more gaps in the “wild” reasoning....
...Vanderhurd launches its latest rug collection, while emerging designer commissions include Marlène Huissoud’s sculptural cabinets, made by encasing insect cocoons in metal, and Richard Lowry’s “Bricolage...
...(Jason Furman provides some numbers in his presentation at the Peterson Institute conference....
...But Mr Furman and Mr Sperling said White House lawyers had concluded that such an escape hatch was not available....
...“You are missing an opportunity to both create jobs in the short-run and have a stronger basis for productivity growth in the long-run,” Mr Furman said....
...William Rehnquist, appointed by Richard Nixon and elevated to chief justice by Ronald Reagan, promoted a conservative legal view that power should be given back to the states....
...Richard Roy Richard Roy is a senior analyst with Citi Investment Research and Analysis, where he specialises in the coverage of exploration and production master limited partnerships (MLPs) as well as engineering...
...Depending on the issue – which can range from derivatives to the problem of long-term male unemployment – they are sometimes joined by Jason Furman or Diana Farrell, Mr Summers’ deputies; Neal Wolin, deputy...
...The rest of the economics team – expected to include Jason Furman, Peter Orszag and Austan Goolsbee – is first-rate, too....
...Book Review, Nixonland In liberal demonology, Richard Nixon is the Great Satan of the 20th century, writes Jurek Martin....
...Where are Austan Goolsbee, Jason Furman and Peter Orszag? Where are Jo Stiglitz and Paul Krugman?...
...Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA NZ) Jean-Luc Roux, Head of Political and Business Unit, Greenpeace International Jeff Powell, Coordinator, The Bretton Woods Project, UK John Furman...
...Fukushima, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan Roy Furman, Co-Founder, Furman Selz John Gage, Chief Researcher, Sun Microsystems Mark T....
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