• So, here’s the new Austan Goolsbee, America. Princeton University’s Alan Krueger, age 50, is President Obama’s selection to serve as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Affairs. While we readily confess we don’t know a terrible lot about him or his philosophies (he served as assistant Treasury secretary the first two years of the Obama administration, which while an important job isn’t as visible as it might be), the article suggests he may want more aggressive government action on joblessness. This is theoretical, of course — it still requires Senate confirmation, which has been hard to come by of late. source

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