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    White House Economic Team Gets a Bold Thinker

    President Obama today nominated of Alan Krueger to replace Austan Goolsbee as head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors. The President also said that next week he'll announce out several "measures that can help to grow this economy...bipartisan ideas that ought to be the kind of proposals that everybody can get behind."

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    President Obama today nominated of Alan Krueger to replace Austan Goolsbee as head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors. The President also said that next week he'll announce out several "measures that can help to grow this economy...bipartisan ideas that ought to be the kind of proposals that everybody can get behind." Catherine Rampell is economics reporter for the New York Times.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Karen Radziner

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      Catherine Rampell

      host of The Weekend on MSNBC

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Is Steve Jobs the Model for a Revived Economy?
    1. 0:00White House Economic Team Gets a Bold ThinkerYou’re reading this
    2. 7:47Why Does Steve Jobs Matter?
    3. 42:44Have We Learned the Lessons of Hurricane Katrina?
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