Obama’s economic to-do list

What the president-elect should do first to revive the economy

What happened

Barack Obama is meeting with his economic advisers Friday to discuss strategies for tackling the U.S. economic crisis. The advisers include former treasury secretaries Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and billionaire investor Warren Buffett. Summers and Volcker are on Obama’s short list for treasury secretary. (Reuters)

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