Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

On June 15 2009 he appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report. A. He was expected to play an informal role from Chicago in Obama's 2012 campaign.

S. Austan Dean Goolsbee (born August 18 1969) is an American economist and the Robert P. He advised President Obama during his 2004 U.