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Top Treasury official returning to academia
Associated Press ^ | 10/17/10 | staff

Posted on 10/17/2010 10:13:34 AM PDT by Nachum

Alan Krueger, a top economics official at the Department of Treasury, will leave his post next month to return to academia, becoming the latest in a string of departures from the Obama administration's economic team. A spokesman for the Treasury confirmed that Krueger, assistant secretary for economic policy, would return to Princeton University, where he previously served as a professor of economics. News of Krueger's departure comes after several other high-profile announcements of Obama economic advisers resigning amid concerns over the sluggish pace of the recovery.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: official; returning; top; treasury
Love the AP headline.

"Returns to Academia"- more like "jumps the shark"

1 posted on 10/17/2010 10:13:42 AM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 10/17/2010 10:14:39 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Now that he’s failed in the real world along with all others, he will return to where what he does has no bearing on reality.


3 posted on 10/17/2010 10:16:16 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Nachum

They’re like cockaroaches looking for a new home. That’s pretty telling...


4 posted on 10/17/2010 10:16:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Sacajaweau

May their treason against their country follow them throughout eternity.


5 posted on 10/17/2010 10:17:53 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Take back our country on November 2, 2010. Let's Roll!!!)
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To: Nachum

A WEEKEND announcement so that most people never hear it, yet again.

Obama’s Keynesian Socialist Econ Advisors are all returning to “Acadenia”, where they can preach Jackassian Socialist Theories on the Taxpayer’s dime, instead of PROVING that they don’t work on the Macro level!!!


6 posted on 10/17/2010 10:19:24 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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To: libh8er
Now that he’s failed in the real world along with all others, he will return to where what he does has no bearing on reality.

...feeding young skulls of mush, sadly.

7 posted on 10/17/2010 10:24:10 AM PDT by The Citizen Soldier (What I want for myself, I want for everyone else. -Samuel Milton)
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To: Nachum

What school in their right mind would hire them? Oh yeah......I forgot......Academia is full of liberals who really do love that this great country is going down the tubes due to their theories and policies!


8 posted on 10/17/2010 10:25:58 AM PDT by Swede Girl
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To: Nachum
Academia: Because homosexual prostitution is too "private enterprise" for Obama alumni.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

9 posted on 10/17/2010 10:28:52 AM PDT by The Comedian (They Live. We Sleep.)
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To: libh8er
Couldn't have said it any better!
10 posted on 10/17/2010 10:35:49 AM PDT by USMA '71 ((Re-elect no one!))
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To: Nachum

Man, Princeton Economics department has a bunch of nutroots: This guy, Blinder, and Krugman. What a bunch of losers!


11 posted on 10/17/2010 12:05:01 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Where's Meg Whitman when we need her?)
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To: Nachum

I’ve always thought that, “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach,” was too disrespectful to articulate. (We’ve all known some gifted teachers, no?) Lately, though.... :(


12 posted on 10/17/2010 3:14:11 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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