When Will the Pain Go Away? Perspectives from Economic and Business Leaders
Several months ago, Newsweek printed a feature that includes some of the big names in economics and business discussing the state of the economy in the USA and in the world. Each person wrote a few paragraphs describing their thoughts regarding the economy and potential methods for stimulating it.
The participants include:
* Larry Lindsey, former governor of the Federal Reserve
* Robert Reich, secretary of labor under Bill Clinton
* Robert Rubin, treasury secretary under Bill Clinton and chairman of Citi
* Wilbur Ross, billionaire investor and past director of the Turnaround Management Association and American Bankruptcy Institute
* Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Economist.com
* Bob Lutz, General Motors’ vice chairman, global product development
* Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google
* Steve Case, cofounder of AOL and chairman of Revolution LLC
* Bill George, author of “True North,” professor of management at Harvard Business School and former chair and CEO of Medtronic
* Bart van Ark, chief economist of The Conference Board and professor of economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands
* John Rowe, CEO of Exelon, a Chicago utility holding company
* Jim O’Neill, chief economist, Goldman Sachs
* Edward Gresser, economist, Public Policy Institute
* Scott Evans, executive vice president of TIAA-CREF, a financial services firm for nonprofits
* Peter Perkins, global strategist of BCA Research
* Nariman Behravesh, chief economist, Global Insight
Source:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/140552/output/print