{"id":5725,"date":"2011-08-30T01:27:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T08:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2011-08-30T03:46:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:46:47","slug":"new-head-for-the-council-of-economic-advisors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/new-head-for-the-council-of-economic-advisors\/","title":{"rendered":"New Head for the Council of Economic Advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Barack Obama has appointed a replacement for Austan Goolsby to head the Council of Economic Advisers.\u00a0 While I would prefer someone more activist than Alan Krueger, I think I understand why Obama appointed him, and in that light, the appointment makes sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"30Krueger\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/30Krueger.jpg\" alt=\"30Krueger\" width=\"275\" height=\"378\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>President Obama is moving to install labor specialist Alan Krueger as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers in an effort to bolster the depleted White House economic team as it girds for a political campaign expected to <strong>focus on jobs and growth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In nominating Krueger, a Princeton University professor, Obama picked <strong>a highly respected specialist in employment and the workforce<\/strong> who served as chief economist at the Treasury Department in the first two years of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, Krueger, 50, worked on tax incentives to encourage employment and programs that sparked auto purchases (&#8220;Cash for Clunkers&#8221;) and municipal building projects \u2014 the kinds of plans Obama is expected to unveil soon to spur job creation.<\/p>\n<p>While Krueger would clearly add weight to an economic team hit by a raft of departures, he is relatively unknown and his appointment signals a continuation of the White House middle-of-the-road course on economic policymaking, despite some Democrats&#8217; call for more aggressive action, including additional government stimulus, to boost the flagging economy\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2016051657_krueger30.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In his defense, Krueger does favor stimulus through infrastructure spending, but I think the reason Obama appointed him is simple.\u00a0 He has already weathered the Senate confirmation process, and Republicans who approved him before cannot oppose him now without appearing to he the hypocrites they are.\u00a0 A true progressive would never survive the confirmation process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has appointed a replacement for Austan Goolsby to head the Council of Economic Advisers.\u00a0 While I would prefer someone more activist than Alan Krueger, I think I understand why Obama appointed him, and in that light, the appointment makes sense. 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