Obama Takes First Questions as President-Elect Today
At 2:30 today, President-elect Barack Obama will hold his first press conference since the election. Reporters will ask him for his magical plan to fix the miserable economy and Obama will announce that out-of-work Americans will be relocated to state-run Unicorn Ranches, or something, and the markets will rally, hooray. But he'll make no personnel announcements! Those wondering who might end up on his presidential money team could look at his current advisors, of course. Obama's assembled a 17-member all-star team of economic advisors, from Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin, who helped create the current crisis under the Clinton administration (Republican talking points yay!!) to the chairman of Google and Warren Buffet, America's two last remaining rich people. Obama's been totally cold to the press for the entirety of the campaign, and reporters don't actually like him very much, so it might be interesting. Obama to meet economic advisors after grim jobs data [Reuters]