1.   And I am a former Federal Reserve Board economist with economics degrees from Cornell and Princeton.

2.   -- William Freund, economics professor at Pace University and former chief economist at the New York Stock Exchange.

3.   A former World Bank economist who has spent most of the last decade outside Mexico, he was generally considered too unknown and inexperienced to be treasury minister.

4.   A former economist for the Treasury Department, Ms. Gianola likes index funds because of their low expenses and recent strong returns, though they are not without risk.

5.   But even with overall increases, Colin Bradford, former chief economist to USAID, thinks the Israel-Egypt share would be too big.

6.   Edward Lincoln, a former Brookings Institution economist, thinks it will take only slightly longer.

7.   Eugene Steuerle, a former Treasury economist now at the Urban Institute, invokes the fear of creating yet another government entitlement that erodes the tax base.

8.   Even many Italians unenamored of Prodi, a low-key former economist, have expressed concern about a return of the chronic instability that marked Italian politics for decades.

9.   Gail D. Fosler, a former chief economist for the Senate Budget Committee, is not known as a particularly venturesome forecaster.

10.   Hassett, who has a doctorate in economics, is a former senior economist for the Federal Reserve Board and is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.