Obama's Econ Team, as of today.
"My key mandate, which came directly from the senator, is to bring him a diverse set of voices and ideas, because that's the kind of debate he likes to hear to make up his mind about his economic agenda,'' [Jason] Furman said.
He named Rubin, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder as advisers the campaign would turn to. Furman also named Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute and James Galbraith, a University of Texas economist and son of economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who was an adviser to President John F. Kennedy. ....[Austan] Goolsbee.
Furman, who I don't know anything about, is just 37 ...
Harvard economics. (I know, I know, heaven help us all...).
