JOB WELL DONE:

Bush's top economic adviser leaving (AP, 2/16/05)

President Bush's top economic adviser is leaving his post to return to academia, the White House announced Wednesday.

N. Gregory Mankiw, the chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, wrote Bush a letter of resignation dated Feb. 9.

"It is time for me to return to my family, my students and my books," the former Harvard University professor wrote in the letter that also praised Bush's economic policies.

even using the governmenmt's outmoded measures the economy added 2.2 million jobs in '04, not quite the 2.6 million Mr. Mankiw predicted but a boatload more than most were predicting at the time.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 16, 2005 7:47 PM