This is just awesome news.

Vice President Elect Joe Biden has picked Jared Bernstein to be his economic adviser.

Bernstein is from the Economic Policy Institute a Labor Centric Think Tank.

Of course having Bernstein be Obama's economic adviser would assuredly be better but something is better than nothing!

I honestly don't know what kind of influence he can have being on the VP team but at least he's got his foot through the White House Door and we sorely need Economists who are focused on working America, the middle class.

Finally Bernstein is just plain smart as hell. I've never seen him write or speak economic fiction.