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OT From The Dismal Scientist
Bush Shows Economists the Door—Literally
By Augustine Faucher

As heard on National Public Radio's
"All Things Considered"



It hasn’t received much play in the press, but the Bush administration has reassigned the president’s top economic advisors to Washington’s equivalent of Siberia. The Council of Economic Advisers will soon vacate their prestigious digs, right next door to the White House, for space a couple of blocks away. The White House is citing security concerns, but the move highlights the Bush administration’s attitude toward serious economic analysis—indifferent, if not downright hostile. ...Read the full article
http://www.economy.com/default.asp
http://www.economy.com/home/article.asp?aid=2231