Team Obama

As Andrew Golis puts it, Bloomberg offers a present for Sally Quinn in the form of a fairly detailed profile of Barack Obama's economic advisors. The results turn out to be pretty uninteresting -- it's a bunch of well-regarded moderately progressive types -- except for the fact that Jeffrey Liebman has flirted with Social Security privatization. In short, it seems that an Obama presidency would pursue a similar economic policy to a Hillary Clinton administration, though it would certainly be worth everyone while to pin Obama down on privatizing Social Security.

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