Where Spider-Man and Captain America Intern: The White House Economic Team
Source: NY Times
The 2019 Economic Report of the President runs 705 pages and features chapters on expanding labor force opportunities and ensuring a balanced financial regulatory landscape. It also claims to be written by Batman.
For the second straight year, the group of economists that do regression analyses and forecast annual growth rates for President Trump has slipped a straight-out-of-Comic-Con Easter egg into its annual report. [Not nerdy enough to know what an Easter egg is? Read here.]
The list of Council of Economic Advisers interns on Page 624 of the report includes Steve Rogers (a.k.a. Captain America), Peter Parker (Spider-Man) and Bruce Wayne (Batman). Theres also Aunt May (Peter Parkers guardian; apparently there are no anti-nepotism rules at the council), J. T. Hutt (a superfan abbreviation for Jabba the Hutt, the Star Wars gangster who hangs a frozen Han Solo on his wall), the actor John Cleese, Kathryn Janeway (a Star Trek captain) and someone called John Snow (more on him later).
The names stuck out because most Council of Economic Advisers interns are university students depending on which movie or comic you prefer, Peter Parker is the only one on the list who fits that bill and also, real human beings.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/us/politics/interns-council-economic-advisers.html
Somehow I feel this report is not something to joke about.
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)I think he was the "President" in the "Hunger Games".
hatrack
(59,584 posts)John Snow's from GOT
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)Thanks! Haven't watched GOT. Just know there are guys named "Snow" out there.
Joe Bacon
(5,165 posts)...Clark Barr!
Initech
(100,068 posts)Do they already have jobs?
Maeve
(42,282 posts)And they had better be careful--for this misadministration, winter IS coming