Friday, January 7, 2011

Gene Sperling

Obama then planned, Gene Sperling, a Treasury Department official, appointed director of the National Economic Council.
The head of the NEC is the point man on economic policy in the White House. Sperling replace Larry Summers, who late last year announced its intention to withdraw from the NEC. (Note to the White House. The CNE site does not mention Summers plans to close)
Here is a look at Sperling CV for the position:
* Currently Consultant Finance Minister Tim Geithner. Sperling, the latest talks with Senate Republicans on extending the tax cuts of the Bush era.
Principal Investigator to promote economic policy and director of the project on education in developing countries: * Council on Foreign Relations.
* It was also the director of the National Economic Council from 1996 to 2000 signed, have at one time, Clinton and the Republican Congress a number of legal obligations, including a balanced budget agreement, as our colleague Jonathan Weisman and Laura Meckler said.
* With Larry Summers, sparrow on the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which contributed dismantled a longstanding separation between investment banks and custodians. Critics have said that repealing contributed to the subprime crisis
* It was $ 480,051 to fund a director of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and $ 250,000 for the economic briefings Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP and Sterling Stamos Capital Management hedge pay offer, Bloomberg News reported in 2009.
* Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, helped negotiate the entry of China into the WTO.
* Former economic adviser Hillary Clinton, then governor Mario Cuomo in New York
* Trivia: Sperling has been a consultant for "The West Wing" television series on the fictional White House from 2001 to 2004, according to IMDB.

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