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Gene B. Sperling


Self Description

October 2006: "Gene B. Sperling is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He served in the Clinton administration as the President's National Economic Adviser and Director of the National Economic Council. Mr. Sperling was the third person to hold the role of chief economic adviser in the White House, following Robert Rubin and Laura Tyson.

Mr. Sperling, who served as either National Economic Adviser or as Deputy NEC Director for all eight years, was called by Mr. Clinton "the MVP" of the economic team. As Director of the NEC, Mr. Sperling was responsible for coordinating domestic and international economic cabinet members. Mr. Sperling coordinated the President's Social Security and debt reduction efforts, and played a key role in such initiatives as the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act, the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and technology literacy initiative.

Mr. Sperling also works on a variety of economic and international issues in several capacities: he is Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and Director of the Center on Universal Education at the Council of Foreign Relations; a weekly Economic Columnist for Bloomberg News; a frequent commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, CNN, and Evening News on federal reserve policy, consumer confidence, and tax and budget issues; and was a contributing writer and consultant on NBC television drama, "The West Wing.""

www.americanprogress.org/experts/SperlingGene.html

July 2001: "The writer was director of President Clinton's National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy. He is now a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8879-2001Jul30

Third-Party Descriptions

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Brookings Institution, The (Brookings Institute) Organization Oct 19, 2006
Organization Executive (past or present) Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Organization Oct 19, 2006
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) National Economic Council (NEC) Organization Oct 19, 2006
Advisor/Consultant to (past or present) President William ("Bill") Jefferson Clinton Person Oct 19, 2006

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Jul 31, 2001 Fiscal Chutzpah

QUOTE: ...Bush administration's simultaneous pleadings that a large, explosive tax cut is affordable and that Social Security is in imminent danger certainly could be a contender for the definition of fiscal chutzpah.

 Washington Post