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...Obama's losses to Hillary Clinton in the March 4 Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island primaries were bookended by incidents involving Obama policy advisors, Austan Goolsbee and Samantha Power, who became enmeshed in controversies involving some of the most significant issues of the campaign: NAFTA, the Iraq War, and Obama's professed rejection of negative campaign tactics...
...Goolsbee and Power have much in common. Both are affiliated with leading academic institutions - Austan Goolsbee is an economics professor at the University of Chicago, and Samantha Power is a foreign policy expert at Harvard (as well as a columnist for TIME). Both joined Obama's team early on as the senior advisors within their policy areas, and, both enjoyed warm personal relationships with the candidate and the political professionals surrounding...
...other end of the Street, the bond market could turn thumbs down on the grounds that trillions in new government borrowing would hurt the economy, raise interest rates and make the dollar suffer. But both assumptions may be overblown, financial experts say. Though University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee has estimated that the financial-services industry could reap $940 billion in fees over the next 75 years from private accounts--real money, even by Wall Street standards--some firms say the accounts look more like a headache than a bonanza. "Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size...
...more perfect market, and the impact on premiums has been enormous. Online insurance sites accounted for as much as half the decline in term-life prices from 1995 to 1997, when the Web was but a pup, according to a study by economists Jeffrey Brown of Harvard and Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago...