To be written up by your graduate school alumni magazine in an article titled, "Obama's Geek Economist."  Here is MIT's Technology Review's article on Austan Goolsbee.  Here's an excerpt:

I am in the couple of weeks of the summer when I travel a lot.  A highlight of last week was to attend a dinner to celebrate the three decades during which Martin Feldstein served as the president of the NBER.  David Warsh was there and has a very good essay summarizing it.

Senator Obama's announcement last week that Jason Furman would join his economic team as economic policy director set off the unfortunate spate of criticism from the Left that he's not Left enough on labor issues.  I figured the last thing Jason needed was a defense from an occasional right-of-center policy opponent.  (The most thoughtful one is here, with links to others from those with left-of-center credentials.)

The most hysterical commentary I've read comes, surprise, from Naomi Klein in The Nation, where Furman's appointment is taken as further evidence that Obama is "thoroughly embedded in the mind-set known as the Chicago School."

V: The Series, which aired on NBC in the mid 1980s, was one of the all-time worst shows in the history of television. After two successful mini-series, it became an "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"-equivalent cult classic.

The show, about aliens who supposedly come to Earth in peace but actually come for other reasons, included an interesting side story.  The "vistors" (one of the two reasons for the series name) commander blamed much of the resistence on "the scientists" who he said were opposing the superior technology being offered to the humans.  Plot outlines are hard to find these days but as I remember 20+ years later, they included the demonizing of, turning popular opinion against, and rounding up of the scientists.

The scientists were being persecuted for explaining that the technology the visitors were offering would not deliver what was being promised and wasn't the gift the aliens said it was.

Unlike some of the others you see on TV, Steve Liesman, the economist-in-chief at CNBC, is an excellent reporter (Full disclosure: I know Steve and for years have had the opportunity to talk with him in front of and behind the camera).