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

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