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Amid rumors of ongoing disputes between more left-leaning Big Government advocates, Austan Goolsbee makes an abrupt departure from the Obama White House.

Austan Goolsbee, just 9 months into his position as Chair of President Obama’s Council on Economic Advisers, gave notice this past week that he is resigning from the Obama administration.  Goolsbee’s official reason for his departure was to allow him to return to his teaching position at the University of Chicago.  Insider reports though are suggesting that Goolsbee was increasingly at odds with the more numerous and left-leaning economic advisers within the Obama White House who wanted even further increases in government spending as a means of stimulating the American economy.  Goolsbee’s own private sector growth approach was met with far less enthusiasm by the Obama inner circle – namely senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.

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Goolsbee’s absence will mark an ongoing string of Obama officials having left the administration.  Lawrence Summers, Peter Orszag, Jared Bernstein, and Christina Romer have all left the president’s economics team within the past year.  Now only former Federal Reserve member Timothy Geithner remains from that original group.

Given the exploding deficit, still high unemployment, and overall anemic economic growth, perhaps it is not enough for various Obama advisers to be resigning – why not the president himself?