Christina Romer is My Heroine.


Earlier I noted Yglesias linked to her farewell speech she gave at the National Press Club.

DeLong quotes from her farewell speech.

Thoma links to DeLong and adds a few words.

She ended it with:

On election night almost two years ago, my husband and I did a most uncharacteristic thing. We’d had friends over to watch the returns and had celebrated the Obama victory with a sedate glass of champagne around 8:00 California time. By 8:30 our friends had gone home and we were left wondering what to do with our joy. I finally declared that I needed to be part of a crowd.

So, we hopped in the car and followed the sounds of honking horns into downtown Oakland. We stopped at the first street corner where people were gathering. There we were, two middle-aged economists, dancing in the street with the Oakland teenagers. Like so many that evening, we were celebrating the promise of a new President who shared our values and our dreams for a better America.

I did the same thing! We went to Chicago's Grant Park to celebrate with Obama and Oprah on that fateful evening.

She didn't mention the $1.2 trillion number they came up for the stimulus which Summers didn't pass on to Obama, but did say that Congress only wanted $500 billion. So anyway, it doesn't look like she'll speak out of school and add to Ryan Lizza's classic account.

Atrios was a dick about the famous unemployment chart and today of course some jackass is being ungracious once more which is why I don't read Eschaton. When your're right it's okay to be rude. It's Okay if You're a Hardcore Liberal.

Maybe Obama will pick another woman to chair the CEA like Laura Tyson? Hopefully he'll pick Elizabeth Warren for the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Strangely, DeLong links to an Arcade Fire video. Here's a "Ready to Start" house party: