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Economic Choices 2008 - Obama's Economic Advisors

Obama's Economic Team

Meet Senator Barack Obama's official economic advisors.

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Warren Buffett

  • Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
  • #1 on World's List of Billionaires
  • Philanthropist
  • B.A., Science, University of Nebraska Lincoln
  • M.S., Economics, Columbia University
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Robert Reich

  • Professor of Public Policy at University of California Berkeley
  • Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton
  • B.A., Dartmouth College
  • M.A., Oxford University
  • J.D., Yale Law School
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Robert Rubin

  • Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Citi
  • Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton
  • Former Board of Director of the New York Stock Exchange
  • B.A., Economics, Harvard College
  • L.L.B., Yale Law School
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Paul Volcker

  • Former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
  • Former President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank
  • B.A. Princeton University
  • M.A., Political Economy and Government, Harvard University
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