The List: Obama's Economists

Economic policy advisors:
Jason Furman (director of economic policy)  
Austan Goolsbee (senior economic policy advisor), University of Chicago tax policy expert  
Karen Kornbluh (policy director)  
David Cutler, Harvard health policy expert  
Jeff Liebman, Harvard welfare expert  
Michael Froman, Citigroup executive  
Daniel Tarullo, Georgetown law professor  
David Romer, Berkeley macroeconomist  
Christina Romer, Berkeley economic historian  
Richard Thaler, University of Chicago behavioral finance expert

Robert Rubin, former Treasury Secretary  
Larry Summers, former Treasury Secretary  
Alan Blinder, former Vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve  
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute labor economist  
James Galbraith, University of Texas macroeconomist  

Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve 1979-1987  
Laura Tyson, Berkeley international economist, Bill Clinton economic adviser  
Robert Reich, Berkeley public policy professor, former Secretary of Labor  
Peter Henry, Stanford international economist  
Gene Sperling, former White House economic adviser  

Other prominent economists who support Obama:
Brad Delong, Berkeley macroeconomist  
Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel laureate  
Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel laureate  
Ray Fair, Yale macroeconomist  
Dan McFadden, 2000 Nobel laureate  
Robert Solow, 1987 Nobel laureate  

Prominent finance people who support Obama:
(not actually economists)
William Donaldson, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair 2003-05  
Arthur Levitt, SEC chair 1993-2001  
David Ruder, SEC chair 1987-1989  
Warren Buffet, investor, richest person in world  




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With some of the names on that list I know another reason why I am voting for McCain.

Get your fact straight...even the Washington Post corrected their assertion.  Obviously another LOW information voter. Quit repeating McCain ads.

is one of the principal architects of the current mortgage/sub prime mess. Don't get me started on Robert Reich, who will tell you flat out he's a big fan of redistributing wealth. Laura Tyson is in Dem politics for one reason, she got Bill C.'s crooked dick to sit up straight.

With his cash, Warren Buffet can stay safe in a world fucked up by Barry and The Dems, but I'm not rich enough to withstand 4 yrs of BO.

I guess it's just a coincidence that there are a lot of Berkeley folks on that list. Shouldn't make a big deal of that, right? Harvard, UofChi, good salt of the earth folks, good experience living down here below, where all us mortals struggle so, to quote another phony fuck lefty. No airhead academics on there, no sir.

these jackasses to raise taxes on the middle class!!!!!!!!