Tuesday, August 9, 2011

8/4/11 - Did Goolsbee & Stewart Go Short A Day Before Dow Dropped 500+ Points

Austan Goolsbee Biography

Austan Dean Goolsbee (born August 18, 1969) is an American economist, formerly serving as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and the youngest member of the cabinet of President Barack Obama. Goolsbee is from the University of Chicago where he is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the Booth School of Business. The Obama White House said Mr. Goolsbee will resign his post as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the summer of 2011 to return to teaching at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Goolsbee graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. summa cum laude and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. 





Academia

At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improve comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate Association. He and debate partner David Gray won the APDA National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. 

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