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Jun 5, 2009

Working in the West Wing: Doing a TV news interview on the North Lawn

This is the second in a series of occasional posts about the nitty gritty of working in the West Wing of the White House. I am describing things as they were in the Bush Administration. YMMV in the Obama…

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Jun 1, 2009

Understanding the GM bankruptcy

Many of you are new to this blog since I wrote extensively about autos six weeks ago. As background, I coordinated the auto loan process for President Bush last fall as the Director of the White House National Economic Council (the position now held by Dr. Lawrence…

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Mar 31, 2009

Auto loans, part 5: The press forgot to ask about the cost to the taxpayer

As I explained yesterday in part 4 of this series, the President delivered different substantive messages to General Motors and Chrysler. I would like now to focus on one element of that message…

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Jan 20, 2009

The transition, my new role, and the mailing list archive

Q: This blog launched in late March of 2009, and yet there are more than 40 posts dated in 2007 and 2008. Why?

A: While working for President Bush, I had a mailing list titled White House Economics, which…