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A Slow Return to Job Creation

By | 02.11.10 | 10:01 am

At least that’s the warning coming from the White House, which today released its annual economic outlook report predicting that an average of 95,000 jobs will be created each month this year.

That’s quite an improvement from the more than 700,000 jobs the economy was shedding when Obama took More…

The Economic Case for Health Reform, Part II

By | 12.14.09 | 10:58 am

In June, the White House issued a report making the case that health reform — well beyond a moral and social imperative — is also vital to the economic health of the country. Today, administration officials were at it again.

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Don’t Make Too Much of That White House Job Summit — or the New Unemployment Numbers

By | 12.04.09 | 9:44 am

Clusterstock hopes everyone assumes the Obama administration’s big jobs summit on Thursday was nothing more than a P.R. show. Otherwise, we’re all in trouble.

We were disturbed when we heard econ aide Christina Romer talk on CNBC about one of her “breakout sessions”

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A Strange Choice of Words From the White House on the Public Option

By | 10.26.09 | 2:14 pm

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,

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Reframing the Health Reform Debate

By | 06.02.09 | 10:23 am

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:

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Previewing the President’s Economic Speech

By | 04.14.09 | 9:11 am

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

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House GOP Still Spinning About ’6.2 Million Jobs’

By | 02.04.09 | 4:55 pm

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 Comes Mitt Romney

By | 01.15.09 | 10:32 am

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.

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