Inside Obama's Economic Brain Trust

It’s not pretty at this moment.

An agenda this transformative is bound to stir up criticism, and so it has—from the left and the right, Wall Street and Main Street, arch-Establishmentarians and hot-eyed populists in roughly equal measure. The complaints of these factions vary wildly, but they share a point of agreement: that the administration so far has badly mishandled the banking crisis; that it’s dithered, dawdled, and dinked around instead of delivering bold, decisive action. ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Mar 23, 2009 - 9:01 AM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Mar 23, 2009 - 9:03 AM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 23, 2009

The personalities behind the curtain get exposed a little bit, giving some hints of who is being allowed to pull which levers.

The team is comprised of people who helped create the problem and seem to espouse the good old boy trust of the corporate board room.. The problems seem a bit more complex than all that.

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