Stimulating debate

6 August 2010 By James Pethokoukis

The short, strange Washington career of Christina Romer is over. The departing Obama economic aide began loved by conservatives and ended cheered by liberals. Whoever her replacement turns out to be could hint at just how debt averse the president will be going forward.

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Christina Romer, one of President Barack Obama's top economic advisers, said on the evening of Aug. 5 she was quitting, effective Sept. 3, to return to her job as professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Romer, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, is the second significant departure from Obama's economic team following the resignation of White House Budget Director Peter Orszag earlier in the summer.

Among those who could be considered to replace Romer are Austan Goolsbee, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, Vice President Joe Biden's chief economist Jared Bernstein and Laura Tyson, a senior economist in Bill Clinton's White House.

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