Topic: Christina Romer

Could a Memo by Christina Romer Have Saved the Economy?

Reuters

In 2008, White House Economic Adviser Christina Romer wrote a memo outlining a stimulus package as large as $1.8 trillion, only to have it buried by Chief Economic Adviser Larry Summers. Could it have saved the economy?

By Elspeth Reeve

Sep 20, 2011

Offices Can Be Sexist Even When They're Oval

Female White House staffers felt marginalized and that Obama wouldn't do much about it

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