“Learning to lead.” Dahr Jamail
This article is so on the money on what to expect from an Obama administration.
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Nouriel take on Obama’s team – he likes them! (11/24/08)
A few additional caveats on this interview:
First, I told the Newsweek reporter – as full disclosure – that I had worked for Tim Geithner and Larry Summers when they were both at Treasury: I was head of a Treasury Office and the Senior Advisor to Tim Geithner in 1999-2000 who was at that time the Under Secretary for International Affairs while Larry Summers was Treasury Secretary. So some may that my positive views of the two may be biased/tinted by my working for them; on the other hand I know first hand about them and I have the greatest respect for their skills, intelligence, expertise, commitment to sound public policy and policy wisdom even if I may not always agree with all of their views.
Second, I have also to add that – as I argued in an interview with CNBC Monday morning – while I have the greatest respect for the new Obama economic team, they will inherit a huge economic and financial mess that will be extremely hard to fix even if they were to implement the most sound and consistent economic and financial policy package. This is going to be the worst US recession in decades as the strapped US consumer is now faltering. The recession train and the financial crisis train have left the station. What policy can do – at best – is to minimize the financial and economic losses and limit the extent and severity and length of the economic and financial crisis, not to prevent it. President Elect Obama and his top notch team will inherit two wars and the worst economic and financial crisis in decades. So expect very difficult times ahead for the economy and for financial markets regardless of the best effort of Obama’s excellent economic team in trying to address these problems. Even a massive fiscal stimulus, a more rapid and coherent plan to recapitalize financial institutions and resolve the credit crunch, an aggressive plan to reduce the debt burden of insolvent household, and more aggressive and radical set of unorthodox monetary policies will not prevent a global stag-deflation in 2009 and possibly longer.
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DN! examines Obama’s Econ Team w/N.Klein, R.Kuttner, M.Hudson (11/25/08)
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Obama’s speech on Econ Team he selected. “Fresh Thinking” per Obama.
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President-elect Barack Obama officially announced economic team members:
Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury;
Lawrence Summers, Director of the National Economic Council;
Christina Romer, Director of the Council of Economic Advisors; (1, 2, )
Melody Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council; and
Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
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This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama’s White House
Jeremy Scahill // AlterNet. Posted November 20, 2008
DemocracyNow! Discussion
**in heavy construction**
goals:
1.Obama hierarchy breakdown:
work in progress: 0, 1, 2, 3, amy, nader, various (.01, .02, .03, .04, .05, .06, .07, .08), site (1, 2),
2. history of Bush policies & hierarchy
3. corporate/business connections to politicians,
4. current Foreign/Domestic policy library,
5. US political mechanisms library,
6. All politicians in all branches down to the local level library (mainly links),
7. historical US policies,
8. The Issues US citizens face
9. Famous US policies (ie New Deal)
10. US presidents (mainly links & by the sequence #/party/year terms)
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Shirley Chisholm
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000371
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/chisholm/
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/shirleychisholmequalrights.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Shirley+Chisholm&btnG=Google+Search
Barbara J. Lee
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=8315
