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Austan Goolsbee is leaving the administration, apparently out of frustration:
This is too bad. I liked Goolsbee's videos where he would attempt to make the complexity of our nation's economic situation understandable to laypersons. He was pretty good at that. I'm sure that his students will be happy to have him return, but it has got to suck for the admin.
More than ever, the atmosphere in Washington seems so laced with toxicity that policymakers have largely given up merely debating how to spur the economy, cognizant that any approach will be deemed politically impossible.
This, suggest policy-watchers, appears to have played at least some role in prompting Goolsbee to finally throw it in and head back to the University of Chicago to resume his academic career. He felt frustrated and tired of seeing what he viewed as necessary policies sacrificed to the imperatives of political positioning and compromise.
This, suggest policy-watchers, appears to have played at least some role in prompting Goolsbee to finally throw it in and head back to the University of Chicago to resume his academic career. He felt frustrated and tired of seeing what he viewed as necessary policies sacrificed to the imperatives of political positioning and compromise.
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