Austan Goolsbee

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WashingtonPost Politics, 06.12.08 08:11 UTC

The President-Elect, Talking Turkey

President-elect Obama had nearly finished his third news conference in as many days yesterday when he decided to favor his audience with one more tasty morsel of information about the just-announced ...

USA Today, 27.11.08 16:33 UTC

Obama in Ill. for Thanksgiving observance, reassures nation

CHICAGO (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama was staying in Chicago for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday Thursday and squeezing in some holiday shopping, a day after trying to reassure Americans about the ailing economy as stores braced for a rough season.

Belfast Telegraph, 27.11.08 15:03 UTC

Signs emerge that US downturn is accelerating

The US President-elect Barack Obama named Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, to a panel that will advise on how to pull the US economy out of recession, amid more signs that the ...

Seattle Times, 27.11.08 10:05 UTC

Obama defends team of insiders

WASHINGTON President-elect Obama essentially said Wednesday that he is the change, striving to assure Americans that he will shake up Washington despite filling his administration with old hands from ...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 27.11.08 07:01 UTC

Obama reassures a nervous nation on ailing economy

CHICAGO -- President-elect Barack Obama sought to reassure the nation and nervous holiday shoppers about the ailing economy yesterday as beleaguered stores braced for their most important month of ...

WashingtonPost Business, 27.11.08 05:03 UTC

The President-Elect, Talking Turkey

President-elect Obama had nearly finished his third news conference in as many days yesterday when he decided to favor his audience with one more tasty morsel of information about the just-announced ...

Chigago Tribune, 27.11.08 01:36 UTC

Former Federal Reserve chairman Volcker will advise Obama

Amid fresh signs of financial troubles, President-elect Barack Obama announced Wednesday he was tapping a seasoned figure from past economic struggles to head a new advisory panel dedicated to ...

WashingtonPost Business, 26.11.08 18:00 UTC

U.S. Stock Markets Mixed in Morning Trading

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 -- Stocks fluctuated this morning, with the Dow Jones industrial average criss-crossing between positive and negative territory, as investors weighed a flurry of discouraging ...

Los Angeles Times, 26.11.08 17:34 UTC

Obama names Paul Volcker to lead economic advisory board

The former Federal Reserve chairman will head a new panel that Obama says will offer 'independent, non-partisan information, analysis and advice.' Also named is longtime Obama advisor Austan Goolsbee.

New York Daily News, 26.11.08 17:34 UTC

Obama values experience, credentials in economic team; Volcker, Goolsbee latest picks

President-elect Barack Obama may be known for his youth - only four presidents have taken office that were younger than him - and rally cries of "change," but when it comes to his choices for his ...