Romer, last I checked, was leaving (she may have already).  You'll recall she was the one who said we needed a $1.2-1.4tn stimulus, and we now know her memo saying so never even made it to Obama.  That's catastrophic, but who can blame her?  If she stays, she'll be ignored anyway, plus she'll lose her tenure at Berkeley.

Volcker hasn't technically left, as far as I know, but they haven't listened to him from the start.  Same with Goolsbee, who was quickly kicked off to the "Recovery Board" with Volcker.  I suspect both of them will be gone soon.

So everybody with half a brain on economics and an ounce of political common sense has basically left.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin