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They titled it better in the print edition:
Advanced Obamanomics:
A Free-Market-Loving, Big-Spending, Fiscally Conservative, Wealth Redistributionist.
Barack Obama has a lot to say about economics. How does he reduce it to a bumper sticker?
By David Leonhardt, New York Times Magazine, August 24, 2008.
I read it; recommend it.
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Also found helpful:
McCain and Obama Court Swing Votes in Business World
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and STEVE LOHR, New York Times Business Section, August 16, 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/us/politics/17cabinet.html
August 25, 2008 2:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
My bumper sticker and thanks for the good reading tips.
August 25, 2008 4:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
A timely link to a good article. Thanks.
August 25, 2008 9:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Its not simply smaller gov't but smarter...
He's to the right of a Keynesian and not the "tradional" Democratic philosophy for market regulation.
August 25, 2008 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yep, thanks for the link. Good piece.
August 25, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Possible bumper sticker:
(common sense + practical solutions) x social responsibility = real economic recovery
August 25, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
aa.
If Obama prevails, keep an eye out for a big role (I hope) for campaign Finance Chair Penny Pritzker in his administration. Not in the realm of fiscal policy, but in the organizational/structural/bureaucratic aspect of governance:
"`She's a no-nonsense, no-drama, no-ego person,'' Obama says during a July flight on his campaign jet from Butte, Montana, to St. Louis. ``She and I share certain core values about how to run organizations, and hopefully that will inform how we manage the government.''
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"Buffett praises Pritzker's management skills. His Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed in December to pay $4.5 billion for 60 percent of Marmon Holdings Inc., where Penny was a director from 2002 to '08."
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"`Once she's in charge of something, you can forget about it, because she's going to get the job done,'' Buffett says via telephone from his office in Omaha, Nebraska. ``That's my yardstick for management performance.''
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/08/the_power_of_penny_pritzker_bl.html
August 25, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
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