and editor at large david whitford joins us from watertown, massachusetts, this morning. ood morning to you. >> good morning. >> so you found that romney's economic team includes some pretty heavy hitters from business and academia, including ivy league professors, hedge fund managers. there's a former president of the world bank and former merrill lynch ceo. tell us more about how they made it into romney's economic inner circle. >> one of the big questions that we've all had about romney's campaign almost from the beginning is what specifically are his plans to fix the economy. he's been accused by his critics of being big on grand gestures and short on details. and so what weather we found out about this economic policy steering group, we felt that it might give us some clues into what his -- what his policies actually will be. this is a -- if you look at the group as a whole, there's 19 members, five former chairs of the presidential council of economic advisers. as you mentioned, a former president of the world bank. a couple hedge fund managers, a lot of professors.

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