{"id":393940,"date":"2010-03-05T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/03\/05\/christina-romer-to-remain-at-white-house-not-joining-fed\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:49:13","slug":"christina-romer-to-remain-at-white-house-not-joining-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393940","title":{"rendered":"Christina Romer to Remain at White House, Not Joining Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christina Romer<\/strong>, one of U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s top economic advisers, Friday said she won&#8217;t be taking up a job at the Federal Reserve and will be staying on at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love my current job and I&#8217;m not going anywhere,&#8221; White House <strong>Council of Economic Advisers<\/strong> Chairman Romer said during a visit at the Wall Street Journal offices Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After Vice Chairman <strong>Donald Kohn<\/strong> this week said he would step down from the Fed board in June, leaving three vacancies on the seven-member body, U.S. President <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> has the chance to reshape the Fed. Romer was one of the names floating around as a possible successor following Kohn&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Among the possibilities for the vice chairman slot are <strong>Janet Yellen<\/strong>, who has been president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco since 2004, and <strong>Laurence Meyer<\/strong>, a former board member and now a private Fed watcher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan Krueger<\/strong>, a <strong>Princeton University<\/strong> labor economist who is now assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy, and <strong>Jeremy Stein<\/strong>, a <strong>Harvard University<\/strong> finance professor who did a brief turn in the Obama administration last year, are other names that have surfaced this week.<\/p>\n<p>Another name circulating as a possibility for the Fed board: <strong>Peter Diamond<\/strong>, 69 years old, a <strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/strong> professor who has had a particular interest in Social Security &#8212; and has crafted Social Security reform proposals with White House budget chief <strong>Peter Orszag<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ShM9gDOhMuoZbJkDRIKWy1Jyq4I\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ShM9gDOhMuoZbJkDRIKWy1Jyq4I\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ShM9gDOhMuoZbJkDRIKWy1Jyq4I\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ShM9gDOhMuoZbJkDRIKWy1Jyq4I\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=nf3-Ca_3nbA:i4cu12Mifdw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=nf3-Ca_3nbA:i4cu12Mifdw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?i=nf3-Ca_3nbA:i4cu12Mifdw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=nf3-Ca_3nbA:i4cu12Mifdw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?i=nf3-Ca_3nbA:i4cu12Mifdw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=nf3-Ca_3nbA:i4cu12Mifdw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/wsj\/economics\/feed\/~4\/nf3-Ca_3nbA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Romer, one of U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s top economic advisers, Friday said she won&#8217;t be taking up a job at the Federal Reserve and will be staying on at the White House. &#8220;I love my current job and I&#8217;m not going anywhere,&#8221; White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Romer said during a visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}