Entries tagged "Obama advisers"
Do President Obama's nominees need a lesson in how to use Turbo Tax? Or maybe they need to hire an accountant. Out of three nominees, two have withdrawn because of tax problems.
Any college student can tell you that loud music, pretty girls and cars all go together, but it could be the combination of the three that prevents private equity dealmaker Steven Rattner from becoming Barack Obama's first car czar. ...
With regulatory overhaul a priority of the Obama administration, the president-elect has tapped a former colleague and friend from the University of Chicago to become the regulatory czar in his administration....
President-elect Barack Obama is not only filling federal agency and Cabinet posts, he's creating new ones. On Wednesday Obama named Nancy Killefer to the post of "chief performance officer," a newly created economic position that will oversee the federal budget and reform government. ...
President-elect Barack Obama continued to grow his economic team Tuesday, naming Peter R. Orszag director of the Office of Management and Budget, the arm of the White House responsible for crafting the federal budget and overseeing the effectiveness of federal programs....
