July 31, 2008 (rt23 news) - TRENTON - Governor Jon S. Corzine today joined Senator Barrack Obama and his group of core economic advisors to participate in freeform discussion about ways to strengthen the U.S. Economy. Other participants included financier Warren Buffet, and Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt.

Governor Corzine offered the following statement:

"The most compelling thing that I found today is Senator Obama’s willingness to listen to and consider ideas coming from a number of different perspectives," Governor Corzine said. "It was reassuring to me as well as a number of the other participants that we have a candidate who wants to consider real world solutions and not just sound bites."

Other participants in the forum included:

* Jared Bernsten (Senior Economist, Economic Policy Institute)
* Bill Bradley (Managing Director, Allen & Company; Former Senator, D-N.J., U.S. Senate 1979-1997)
* Warren Buffet (Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway)
* Anna Burger (Chair, Change to Win; International Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International union)
* William Daley (Chairman of the Midwest, JP Morgan Chase; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Commerce, 1997-2000)
* James Dimon (CEO, JP Morgan Chase)
* William Donaldson (27th Chairman of the SEC 2003-2005)
* Indra Nooyi (President and CEO, PepsiCo)
* Paul O’Neill (Special Advisor, Blackstone Group, Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Treasury, 2001-2002; Former CEO, ALCOA)
* Frederico Pena (Former Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1997-1998; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1993-1997; Former Mayor, City of Denver 1983-1991)
* Penny Pritzker (CEO, Classic Residence by Hyatt)
* Robert Reich (University of California, Berkeley; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Labor, 1993-1997)
* Robert Rubin (Chairman and Director of the Executive Committee, Citigroup; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Treasury, 1995-1999)
* Eric Schmidt (Chairman and CEO, Google)
* william spriggs (Professor and chair of the Department of Economics, Howard University)
* Lawrence Summers (Harvard University; Managing Director, D.E. Shaw; Former Secretary, U.S. Dept of Treasury, 1999-2001)
* Laura Tyson (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)
* Paul Volcker (Former Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve 1979-1987)