President-elect Barack Obama introduces his economic team during a press conference at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago. From left, Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, as Treasury secretary; Christina Romer, an economist at the University of California-Berkeley, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; Lawrence Summers, former Treasury secretary under President Clinton, director of the National Economic Council; and Melody Barnes, executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress, director of his White House Domestic Policy Council.

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