Austan Goolsbee on What He Would Do If He Got a Stimulus Plan Do-over

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Austan Goolsbee has been tasked with helping to steer the White House's economic recovery plans as chief economist of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board.  As he looks back at last February, when the new administration took over Washington, he remembers the nearly-overwhelming process of picking up a recovery plan already started.  And if he could go back and do it again, it sounds as though the first thing he would do would be to make his office more livable--as he now realizes that it essentially became his residence.  He would also have put more money in the state fiscal relief.  Here he is at O'Reilly Media's Web 2.0 Summit,  summit addressing the question of what he would do more differently if he could start from scratch and redesign the stimulus plan:

Watch the full interview at Fora.tv here


Posted 11-09-2009 8:41 AM by Graham Griffith
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