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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Tue Mar 19, 2019, 09:20 PM Mar 2019

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). There’s also Aunt May (Peter Parker’s 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.
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Where Spider-Man and Captain America Intern: The White House Economic Team (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2019 OP
"someone called John Snow (more on him later)." BumRushDaShow Mar 2019 #1
No, that's Corialanus Snow hatrack Mar 2019 #5
Ha! BumRushDaShow Mar 2019 #8
Hey, they forgot... Joe Bacon Mar 2019 #2
What about Tony Stark? Or Carol Danvers? Or Bruce Banner? Or Natasha Romanov? Or Peter Quill? Initech Mar 2019 #3
Janeway Takket Mar 2019 #4
I believe it is spelled Jon Snow Maeve Mar 2019 #6
With this crowd its more likely Victor Von Doom and Norman Osborne. Capt. America Mar 2019 #7

Initech

(100,068 posts)
3. What about Tony Stark? Or Carol Danvers? Or Bruce Banner? Or Natasha Romanov? Or Peter Quill?
Tue Mar 19, 2019, 10:10 PM
Mar 2019

Do they already have jobs?

Maeve

(42,282 posts)
6. I believe it is spelled Jon Snow
Tue Mar 19, 2019, 10:39 PM
Mar 2019

And they had better be careful--for this misadministration, winter IS coming

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