Christina Romer

Latest Articles On Celebrity Gossip August 5th 2010 There are numerous reasons why Wyclef Jean should not be the next president of Haiti. Writing for Fast Company, writer Jenara Nerenberg offers up a few reasons why he might be the ideal man for the job. More » Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer to Resign [Resignations] August 5th 2010 Christina Romer, the chair of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, will step down in September. More...Read Full Story

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Christina Romer, former head of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, and Ira Jersey, head of U.S. interest-rate strategy at Credit Suisse, talk about today's decision by the Federal Open Market Committee to leave monetary policy unchanged. Fed policy makers raised their assessment of the economy as the labor market gathers strength and refrained from new actions to lower borrowing costs. Romer and Jersey speak with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg...Read Full Story

Way back when campaign-Obama was assembling his dream team of advisors and his team of rivals, the media was in awe of his choices. The soundness and level headedness of his selections — from academia to hard nosed battle tested policy pols —  supposedly proved that campaign-Obama was to lead a pragmatic, solution-first administration. The choices would lead to the actual working mechanics of his campaign rhetoric in which he would rise above the “smallness of our politics” and take America...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Christina Romer, one of President Barack Obama's top economic advisers, said on Thursday she was stepping down, an exit that comes as the White House struggles to keep the recovery on track with congressional elections looming in November.Romer said she was quitting her post, effective September 3, to return to her job as professor at the University of California at Berkeley.As chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Romer helped oversee the response to...Read Full Story

Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer hosts a live chat to discuss how health insurance reform will affect small businesses. She takes your questions from WhiteHouse.gov and Facebook, as well as questions from small business professionals that were previously submitted on LinkedIn. In his weekly address, the President discussed the CEA report on health reform and small business, and asked small business owners and employees to submit their questions and comments on the report...Read Full Story