Christina Romer

Here’s a curious piece of the health reform speech delivered today by Christina Romer, who heads the White House Council of Economic Advisers, at the Center for American Progress:
A public health insurance option would be a credible entrant in concentrated markets, and would serve as a competitive, alternative choice, constraining the ability of insurers to [...]

This morning, Democratic leaders will join White House officials to release a report outlining the economic case for enacting health care reform ASAP. In advance of that release, Christina Romer, who chairs the White House Council of Economic Advisers, penned an op-ed for Yahoo! News outlining the argument:
Health care reform is more than a social [...]

President Obama heads to Georgetown University today to address the nation regarding the economy. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Christina Romer, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, offered a preview of the speech’s message. Politico has the write-up.
Romer said Obama will address “what’s been going wrong” in the economy and also what the administration is [...]

The House Republican leadership has sent a letter to the White House asserting that it’s answered the call for new stimulus ideas with a tax cut plan — that’s been debunked by the person whose research it cites.

Here at the Republican Working Committee on Economic Recovery hearing, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) pushes bipartisanship again: “President[-elect Barack] Obama recognized last week that the monopoly on ideas does not belong to one party.” He introduces former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), whose statement I am reading through.
Research by Christina Romer, the President-elect’s Chairwoman for [...]