Opinion of Obama's Economic Team?

[Lunar]

Considering I've met and taken an economics class from Christina Romer, one of the top people named today, I feel quite good about them.

The Economics Department at Berkeley is in shock

[Lunar]

Considering I've met and taken an economics class from Christina Romer, one of the top people named today, I feel quite good about them.

The Economics Department at Berkeley is in shock

I should add that this shock comes from the fact that her husband is also a prestigious economic professor and she has a good possibility of using her position to hire Berkeley professors at lower positions.

We could end up being decimated!

[Lunar]

The woman standing behind Obama's shoulder was my economics professor!

[Lunar]

^ Romer is a hard-core supported of a progressive tax system, an opponent to the War on Drugs, and a hard-core Democrat.

[Lunar]

Romer is a hard-core supported of a progressive tax system, an opponent to the War on Drugs, and a hard-core Democrat.

Huzzah! Sounds like my kind of Democrat.

Although

I mean, minus Krugman, you simply can't easily find economic leftists that are prestigious and knowledgeable economists.  She's a centrist.  She occasionally teaches introductory courses here at Berkeley (like the one I took), even though most prestigious people decline to do so, because she has a knack for breaking down complex ideas so that they are accessible.