{"id":106,"date":"2008-11-30T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=106"},"modified":"2009-03-18T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:20:54","slug":"welcome-the-obama-economic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2008\/11\/30\/welcome-the-obama-economic-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome the Obama economic team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/images\/facstaff\/WilliamsMark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">School of Management finance\u00a0Professor <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a title=\"Mark Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/WilliamsMark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Williams<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, a risk-management and former Federal Reserve Bank examiner<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, commends President-elect Obama&#8217;s introduction of the next administration&#8217;s new economic team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000\">President-elect Obama did a nice job of conveying crisply that while he cannot step on the field as a quarterback until January 20th, he is still quickly assembling a top economic team that is experienced and able to lead us out of financial turmoil.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;In assembling these economic superheros &#8212; including Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Christina Romer, and Melody Barnes &#8212; he wanted a group that had sound judgment, were fresh thinkers and had new ideas.\u00a0 These are not characteristics most Americans would choose in describing Bush-appointed economic teammembers, or how they have managed this financial crisis.\u00a0 This was a clear message that a new team, with a lot of experience and new ideas, was suiting up for game day.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;The most important message was the phrase: &#8216;We can&#8217;t have a thriving Wall Street without a thriving Main Street.&#8217;\u00a0 This was important as it sent a clear message that these new economic superheros will no longer allow the interests of Wall Street to take priority over the interests of the American people.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Management finance\u00a0Professor Mark Williams, a risk-management and former Federal Reserve Bank examiner, commends President-elect Obama&#8217;s introduction of the next administration&#8217;s new economic team. &#8220;President-elect Obama did a nice job of conveying crisply that while he cannot step on the field as a quarterback until January 20th, he is still quickly assembling a top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}