On his last day at the White House, Austan Goolsbee, chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, said he is not satisfied with the employment numbers in the U.S.
Goolsbee is leaving the administration to return to the University of Chicago.

Goolsbee said the debt-ceiling debate was “quite unsettling” and “deeply damaging.” He called for a renewed focus on job growth. He told Bloomberg TV today’s jobs report was encouraging, but said “we’ve got a long way to go.”

… but why couldn’t he get his boss to go too ?

This is definitely gloomy …

A government official tells ABC News that the federal government is expecting and preparing for bond rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the rating of US debt from its current AAA value.
Officials reasons given will be the political confusion surrounding the process of raising the debt ceiling, and lack of confidence that the political system will be able to agree to more deficit reduction. A source says Republicans saying that they refuse to accept any tax increases as part of a larger deal will be part of the reason cited.
The official was unsure if the bond rating would be AA+ or AA.