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  • WSJ: Search for Fed Chairman Widens - Beyond The 3 Main Candidates; Lawrence Lindsey Emerges

    08/04/2005 5:26:27 AM PDT · by OESY · 11 replies · 576+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | August 4, 2005 | GREG IP
    The White House search for a successor to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who is scheduled to retire in January, has intensified.... [T]he three candidates cited most frequently have been economists Martin Feldstein of Harvard University, Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University and Ben Bernanke, chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. But the White House also is looking at other candidates, including former Bush adviser Lawrence Lindsey, said several people familiar with the process. They said the White House hasn't rejected the three main candidates but doesn't want to limit its choice prematurely. There appears to be no clear...
  • CUT OUR BUDGET

    02/08/2004 8:29:08 PM PST · by anymouse · 6 replies · 193+ views
    Townhall ^ | February 7, 2004 | Robert Novak
    Budget Director Joshua Bolten has privately issued an unprecedented challenge to unhappy conservative Republicans in Congress: Go ahead and cut President Bush's domestic budget if you can. We won't oppose you. Bolten addressed GOP lawmakers assembled in Philadelphia just before the budget was released. Conservatives grumbled that Bush's proposed increase in discretionary domestic spending of only one quarter of one percent was bogus, because its reductions in popular programs never will pass Congress.