... investment banking business of B of A, in contrast, the worst days seem to have passed." President Barack Obama's top economic adviser said the signs of improvement displayed by the banks would not have been possible without government infusions ...

... president-elect say he intends to announce members of his national security team next week, after disclosing his top economic advisers in recent days. - Advertisement - Gates, who has served as President George W. Bush's defense secretary for ...

... 5 million jobs over two years. Among those whose opinions Obama advisers sought were Lawrence B. Lindsey, a top economic adviser to President George W. Bush during his first term, and Harvard professor Martin Feldstein, an informal John ...

... 2.5 million he proposed last month. Obama set the more ambitious target earlier this week after meeting with top economic advisers who cautioned that the nation's unemployment rate could exceed 9 percent given the current pace of job losses ...

... secretary. "Three million, 4 million jobs is going to make a very big difference," said Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to the incoming president, referring to the goal Obama has set. "It all depends on psychology, but we are going ...

... week or a month or even a year, and they're not going to get solved that fast," said Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to Obama. "So even as we move to be as rapid as we can in jolting the economy and giving it the push forward ...

WASHINGTON (AP) One of President Barack Obama's top economic advisers forecast Sunday a difficult struggle with Congress over Senate cuts of $40 billion for state and local governments from the administration ...

... this kind of thing from happening again," Goolsbee said. - Advertisement - Added Lawrence Summers, Obama's top economic adviser: "The easy thing would be to just say ... off with their heads, violate the contracts. But you have to think ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Lawrence Summers, President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, earned millions over the past year as managing director of the hedge fund D.E. Shaw Group and through speaking fees, some ...

... within the next few months, and we will no longer have that sense of a free-fall," President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, said Thursday. But Summers, who spoke at the Economic Club of Washington, said it was too ...