Again, this is exactly what my problem was with Christina Romer leaving:
Believe me, I know that nobody could "force" Christina Romer to stay if she wanted to leave, but as the article states, why would she want to stay? She doesn't have the intellectual line to the president that Summers does and she doesn't have the power that Geithner does. She'll lose her university tenure if she stays any longer, and if she's not moving up the chain-of-advice in the White House, I can't blame her for wanting to go.
She deserves better than this. I don't normally pull out hackneyed phrases like "good ole boys club", but this kind of strikes me in that manner. It seems that the deep, internal circle is still made up of good ole boys that each individually think that he, himself, is the end-all-be-all when it comes to policy. And that's not right. Summers stifled Romer and now can't come to terms with the fact that he was wrong and she was right. I mean, is it really surprising? He thinks (based on his statements at Harvard) that he should genetically be better at math than her. And he isn't. I reiterate, the Summers/Geithner dream team of naivete is the problem. They are Wall Street. They are oblivious. Put into kindergarten terms, they just don't play well with others. They represent big banks, big greed, and big mistakes. Gordon Gekko could be their lovechild. THEY NEED TO GO.
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