Obama Economic Transition Team
The list is impressive. Most of the members are not surprises. I must admit to being incredibly glad to see Robert Reich’s name on there. This is a man who understands better than anyone the destructive potentials of capitalism and the need for a strong hand from the government to mitigate those effects. Certainly better than Robert Rubin (ugh) who is one of those left-brain capitalist types that Jon Taplin is talking about over here. There are no easy fixes to our problems, but this team might actually figure out some of the hard but necessary steps we’re going to need to take.