Paul O'Neill

The Price of Loyalty George W Bush the White House and the Education of Paul ONeill

Palin Campaign 2008 (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Price of Loyalty George W Bush the White House and the Education of Paul ONeill [...]

Predicting

The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008

The eminent economists Paul Krugman and Greg Mankiw are busily occupied in comparing the size of their reproductive organs (hat tip: James Joyner). Their time might better be spent in predicting within, say, 1% how today’s “Black Friday” sales will compare with last year’s. They won’t do it, of course, and if they tried [...]

Mid-Atlantic Capital Conference - Dec 2 and 3 in Philadelphia

Nothing To Say (Free subscription) | yesterday

I'll be presenting on a Pursuit of Capital panel tomorrow at 3PM at the MAC conference in Philadelphia - full agenda is here and speakers include former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill and Christopher Gardener, the subject of the movie "The...

New Treasury Secretary Understands Currencies

Forex Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

... to take steps that will rattle them. This would mark a sharp break from his predecessor Henry Paulson, whose bungling of the economic bailout has given rise to record levels of volatility (read: uncertainty) in forex and financial markets. The Australian reports: "For all the currency traders out there, this means he was in charge of US dollar policy and is steeped in the nuance of the currency...

Obama’s Strategy: Lieutenants not Generals

sans everything (Free subscription) | yesterday

... in charge of staffing the Bush administration): Cheney co-opted familiar big names (Colin Powell, Paul O’Neill) but he made sure that all the secondary people were neo-cons loyal to the vice-president. In sum, the strategy seems to be to let the generals keep their ribbons, as long as the lieutenants belong to the President. To be fair, I should mention that some journalistic friends...

Trans-Siberian, Mannheim Steamroller have turned the holidays into cash

Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008

... it up. "When you do Christmas music, you're competing with the best of the last 2,000 years," said Paul O'Neill, creator of touring juggernaut Trans-Siberian Orchestra. "In the artistic world, Christmas is the holy grail. It's the hardest success to achieve because you're competing with Mendelssohn, Bach, Handel, Dickens. But if you can have a success with it, it tends to span centuries."...

Instead Of Pardoning A Turkey, How About Bowling A Turkey?

Extreme Mortman (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

With special guest George W. Bush. Sarah Palin’s got nothing on this career-stopping turkey video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSDhSa2NxYc Instead of bowling a turkey, and we don’t mean Paul O’Neill, maybe Bush could have tried his hand at, ahem, duck pins.

Drezner Forgets He Was Smoking in the Early 2000s

EconTech (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

... the Bush administration started out with a fairly deep bench. Colin Powell as Secretary of State. Paul O’Neill –a former deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and a past chairman of the RAND Corporation — as Secretary of the Treasury. Columbia’s Glenn Hubbard as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice providing foreign policy expertise....

• Battle of the All-Star Cabinets - Daniel W. Drezner

A Graphical Guide To Obama’s Policy Positions

Spook And Muffin's Relaxed Politics (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

... or center-right, including Colin Powell, Tommy Thompson, Norman Mineta, Christine Todd Whitman, Paul O’Neill and arguably Mitch Daniels and Ann Veneman. Obviously, this was balanced out to some degree by the Rumsfelds and the Ashcrofts, but it is not clear that Bush’s 2001 cabinet was any more right-wing than Obama’s 2009 cabinet is left-wing. Bush ran a very conservative government...

Battle of the All-Star Cabinets

Daniel W. Drezner (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008

... the Bush administration started out with a fairly deep bench. Colin Powell as Secretary of State. Paul O’Neill –a former deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and a past chairman of the RAND Corporation — as Secretary of the Treasury. Columbia’s Glenn Hubbard as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice providing foreign policy expertise....

The votes are in. More people seem to like Hank than dislike him

Zell's Pinstripe Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008

Well the two recent polls I ran on the site produced these results: Do you like or dislike Hank Steinbrenner? Like 60% (60 Votes) Dislike 40% (40 Votes) 100 Total Votes ————— What is your favorite Seinfeld-Yankees related episode? George M. Steinbrenner III- The Calzone 28% (28 Votes) Paul O’Neill- The Wink 17% (17 Votes) Danny Tartabull- Pledge Drive 3% (3 Votes) Joe Dimaggio- Dinky...

Best, Brightest, Fabbest Cabinet, like, Evah

The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008

... the Bush administration started out with a fairly deep bench. Colin Powell as Secretary of State. Paul O'Neill --a former deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and a past chairman of the RAND Corporation -- as Secretary of the Treasury. Columbia's Glenn Hubbard as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice providing foreign policy expertise....

What to make of the Obama economic team

The Curious Capitalist (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008

... seldom do. Bush administration CEA chief Glenn Hubbard had a brief moment in the sun after rivals Paul O'Neill (the Treasury Secretary) and Larry Lindsey (the top White House economic adviser) imploded. But that was sort of the exception that proves the rule. If the role of the CEA is to be a fact checker for the proposals emanating from the White House, then Romer is a spectacular...