…[Obama’s] failure to hold financial kingpins accountable for the crisis that spawned the Great Recession was inexcusable. And this failure was compounded by not mounting any significant financial reform but instead passing a Frankenstein bill that — besides not addressing many of the real problems — was unwieldy, unnecessarily complex, and unworkable. It was perhaps…
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Economist group sets ethics guidelines
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Economist group sets ethics guidelines
Reuters – 8 hrs ago…
(Reuters) – The American Economic Association, the world’s largest association of economists, on Thursday beefed up disclosure guidelines on the potential conflicts of interest of authors…
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Obama’s New Chief Economic Adviser Gene Sperling
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Big business likes Sperling, who was an economic adviser in the Clinton White House….and, of course, there’s the obligatory Goldman Sachs connection….
Not lost on Wall Street is the fact that Sperling has worked there: He served as a consultant t…