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3 May 2017, 9:30 pm
Jason Furman, former Chair of the Economic Council, identifies licensing as a form of rent-seeking: an action that benefits private individuals without increasing overall wealth. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 9:30 pm
” Still, Jason Furman, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, told The Christian Science Monitor “[w]e know way more than enough to justify acting today [on climate change]. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 1:01 pm
After that, Goolsbee receded from the limelight, and Obama appointed a new economic adviser, Jason Furman. [read post]
20 May 2011, 7:45 am
It was the 1,252nd post-Furman execution in the United States. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 11:26 am
This is one reason why I'm happy Jason Furman's recent report on cost-consciousness in health care reform does acknowledge this "big picture," and proposes little to no cost-sharing for especially helpful interventions, especially preventive care. [read post]
7 Dec 2020, 4:18 pm
A good deal of credit for this can be put down to inquiries led by two people, Dame Frances Cairncross and Jason Furman (the former chief economist to US president Barack Obama). [read post]
3 May 2007, 9:02 pm
Maybe Clinton should hire Jason Furman? [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
The Closest Thing to a Substantive Argument: The Return of the Confidence FairyThe one source in RT’s piece who is neither a conservative ideologue or a deficit scold (which is merely a different kind of conservative ideologue) is Jason Furman, an economist who served in the Obama administration. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 5:02 pm
As I wrote in "The Usual Suspects" on this blog back in June of 2008, Obama's choice of Jason Furman as his campaign's economic policy director was itself all too predictable; and once that choice had been made, there was no doubt that the "safe, centrist technocratic economic theory" that Furman represents would hold sway in the Obama camp. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 10:18 pm
Obama economic adviser Jason Furman estimates that reaching that number in cuts would require cutting every federal department, including defence, by one third. [read post]
22 Apr 2018, 7:15 am
David Schleicher, and Jason Furman, Chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. [read post]
23 Sep 2016, 8:05 am
Others include Paul Krugman, Matthew Yglesias, and Jason Furman, chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. [read post]
13 May 2011, 11:57 am
Jason Furman (yes, this one) points out that this result is a pretty big deal: [T]hat’s a huge savings for households in the bottom quintile, which, on average, spend 26 percent of their income on food. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 7:50 am
“It’s really important to us that we don’t see that measure repealed and we will work hard to prevent that from happening,” Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said Tuesday Morning. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 11:36 am
Size of the Climate Bill May 2 or 3 Times Projected in the President's Budget- Jason Furman, deputy director of the National Economic Council, told Senate staffers in late February that the plan could raise two to three times as much as the official budget figures, or between $1.3 trillion and $1.9 trillion, the WSJ reports. [read post]
10 Aug 2006, 8:45 pm
The first case has received much attention from the arm chair pundits, Jason Getsy v. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 3:14 am
The proposed rule comes after months of pitched internal debate, with Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Domestic Policy Council director Cecilia Muñoz pushing to keep the threshold at the 40th percentile, and other members of the White House economic team, including Council of Economic Advisers chairman Jason Furman, trying to lower it to the 37th percentile. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 5:09 am
RealClearPolitics has the scoop:The plan would cause the government "to massively overpay for mortgages in a plan that would guarantee taxpayers lose money, and put them at risk of losing even more if home values don't recover," Obama economic adviser Jason Furman said in a statement. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 3:14 am
The proposed rule comes after months of pitched internal debate, with Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Domestic Policy Council director Cecilia Muñoz pushing to keep the threshold at the 40th percentile, and other members of the White House economic team, including Council of Economic Advisers chairman Jason Furman, trying to lower it to the 37th percentile. [read post]
13 Jan 2017, 11:15 am
We’d be remiss if we didn’t note all of the other agencies that saw fit to make room for climate change in their bird’s-eye reviews, including: the Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s concerted effort to establish regional Climate Hubs as a way to give agriculture and forest producers reliable regional data to address region-specific climate risks (Tom Vilsack); the EPA’s detailed description of its efforts to battle climate change (Gina McCarthy); the Justice… [read post]
