Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama plans to name Alan Krueger, a labor economist and former Treasury official, to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers, according to a White House official. Krueger, who returned to Princeton University last November after serving as the Treasury Department’s chief economist for two years, will replace Austan Goolsbee. Hans Nichols and Michael McKee report on Bloomberg Television’s “InsideTrack.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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Gupte, Funtleyder Say Major Risk to HMOs, Pharma Is Past: Video
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — Ana Gupte, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, and Les Funtleyder, an analyst at Miller Tabak & Co., talk with Bloomberg’s Peter Cook about the outlook for an overhaul of the US health care system. President Obama will release a proposal to restart the health-care debate before a bipartisan White House meeting on Feb. 25. Gupte and Funtleyder also discuss Medicare’s proposed 1.28 percent payment increases for so-called Medicare Advantage policies in 2011. (This is an excerpt from the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)