When Obama nominated current White House chief of staff and former Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew for Treasury Secretary all the main stream press could talk about was his loopy signature.
Who is Alan Krueger? More importantly, is anyone in this administration going to propose solid legislation and policies, well thought out in detail, that will actually work to get America back to work? Bottom line, it looks like the same ole party line and finding anywhere Krueger has crossed it comes up empty.
Guess what folks, there is a new economy! I'll bet you didn't know that just as much as stock evaluations and profit didn't matter in the dot con era.
At the helm of the Obama plan is the Chicago School of Economics, heavily promoting behavioral economics..
Aha, if we all just made the right choices, none of this bad shit would be happening right? A new article, Obama's Geek Economist, in the MIT Technology Review, gives some foreboding hints at what we could expect in economic policy for an Obama administration. We're being told (sold), we need a new economist for the new economy.
As I recall our economy is a very old story and it's called labor arbitrage.
Obama subscribes to a distinctive set of economic theories developed at the university [of Chicago], and to a corresponding set of policy prescription
When Obama nominated current White House chief of staff and former Office of Management and Budget Director 
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