- Is Obama Planning For Battle Against A Looming Depression, Not A Recession? – No doubt, Obama is smart to treat this crisis as potentially as bad as what the country experienced in the 1930s. He would be committing presidential malpractice if he under-treats the condition, and I'm thrilled that Obama picked a professor from my alma mater (Berkeley) to serve as his chief economist. But the noticeable shift in Obama's discussions about our economic situation, along with hints that he'll be putting on the backburner any tax cut rollbacks or efforts to tackle the deficit, are quite revealing.
- FRAMESHOP: Obama’s Economic Team (for Dummies) – If you are like me, you are following Barack Obama's appointees to top economic positions with keen interest, but cringe worthy ignorance about the actual posts these folks are about to take up. What the heck do these people do, anyway?
- Obama’s Agenda & The Difference Between Tactics & Strategy – If his campaign was any indication, Obama is not much of an outsourcer — he will dictate the tone of his administration. Moreover, we actually have quite a bit of information about what his longer-term goals are. This morning, I went to Obama's website and began transcribing essentially all the specific policy proposals that he was willing to commit to publicly — as you will see, there are dozens and dozens of them. I then began classifying these positions on a truncated political spectrum running from liberal/progressive to center-right, further dividing the policies into economics and taxation (green), other domestic policy (yellow) and foreign affairs (blue).
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