Not exactly major league

摘要

By most measures, the president has quite an ambitious economic agenda for his second term. George Bush's goals include overhauling the tax code, reforming the Social Security system, halving the budget deficit and pushing through more trade agreements. But who exactly is meant to do all this stuff? In theory, Mr Bush's economic team is headed by John Snow. The president was on the point of sacking his treasury secretary at the end of last year; he then pulled back-but only apparently to keep Mr Snow as a travelling salesman for his pension-reform scheme. The former railroad boss has recently visited such well-known global financial centres as San Antonio, Albuquerque and New Orleans.