NP but it is Against the Day.............

[Joe Allonby]

Robert Reich.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> OBAMA's RESPONSE SO FAR
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> He will be holding a press conference tomorrow after a meeting with his
> economic transition team. He is expected to name Larry Summers his Treasury
> Secretary, he of rejection at Harvard and Clinton's former Treasury
> Secretary. (he was Rubin's #2) Doug Ireland passed around the members of his
> team.
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> Here (thanks to The Politico) is the list of Obama's transition economic
> advisory team. You will note that it is composed entirely of current or
> former government officials and bureaucrats and corporate types. There is
> not a sinigle representative of the labor movement, not a single labor
> economist, not a single representative of progressive or economic watchdog
> groups, not a single representative of consumers…..guess what kind of
> economic policies and appointments we'll get out of this crowd!
> — D.I.
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> Obama's economic advisers
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> Barack Obama and Joe Biden will hold a meeting with the Transition Economic
> Advisory Board Friday at the Hilton Chicago at 2:30 p.m. Eastern.
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> The members of the Transition Economic Advisory Board are below, and all
> will participate in tomorrow's meeting.
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> • David Bonior (Democratic member of the House of Representatives,
> 1977-2003)
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> • Warren Buffett (chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway) — will participate
> via speakerphone
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> • Roel Campos (former commissioner at the Securities and Exchange
> Commission)
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> • William Daley (chairman of the Midwest, JPMorgan Chase; former secretary,
> U.S. Dept of Commerce, 1997-2000)
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> • William Donaldson (former chairman of the SEC, 2003-2005)
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> • Roger Ferguson (president and CEO, TIAA-CREF and former vice chairman of
> the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve)
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> • Jennifer Granholm (governor, state of Michigan)
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> • Anne Mulcahy (chairman and CEO, Xerox)
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> • Richard Parsons (chairman of the board, Time Warner)
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> • Penny Pritzker (CEO, Classic Residence by Hyatt)
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> • Robert Reich (professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of
> California, Berkeley; former secretary, U.S. Dept of Labor, 1993-1997)
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> • Robert Rubin (chairman and director of the executive committee,
> Citigroup; former secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury, 1995-1999)
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> • Eric Schmidt (chairman and CEO, Google)
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> • Lawrence Summers (managing director, D.E. Shaw; former president of
> Harvard University; former secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury,
> 1999-2001)
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> • Laura Tyson (professor, Haas School of Business, University of
> California, Berkeley; former chairwoman, National Economic Council,
> 1995-1996; former chairwoman, President's Council of Economic Advisors,
> 1993-1995)
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> • Antonio Villaraigosa (mayor, city of Los Angeles)
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> • Paul Volcker (former chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve 1979-1987)
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