Liebman

Bad Planning: From back when Obama admitted he had ideas, 2007

Sat, 05/24/2008 - 12:35pm — Truth Partisan

Let's look at one of Obama's main advisers...the one who supports Social Security "reform" that destroys the current system...

"Obama's Economic Brain Trust Breaks With `Status Quo' (Update1)

By Rich Miller and Matthew Benjamin
Bloomberg.com
May 10, 2007

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2...

...Three academics -- Austan Goolsbee, 37, a University of Chicago professor and columnist for The New York Times, Jeffrey Liebman, 39, a pension and poverty expert at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and David Cutler, 41, a Harvard health economist -- form the core of Obama's economic team....

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