11.06.2008

Transition team speculation

Could somebody please jam the Z$&%^$ revolving door?!?!?!? - Ed.

Barack Obama’s promises of change will immediately be measured against his efforts to form an administration that inspires confidence and produces rejuvenation. In the days before his inauguration, his main influence on the future will be through his appointments.

A host of names are being bandied about as possible members of an Obama administration.

Paul Volcker, a key economic advisor, who was federal reserve chairman under Ronald Reagan and broke the back of an inflation crisis in the early 1980s, could return briefly to his old post to try and stabilize the economy.

Investor Warren Buffett and Robert Rubin, a former Clinton treasury secretary, could also assume economic posts in an Obama White House.

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