Obama Said to Talk With Commerce’s Blank on Economist Job

President Barack Obama has interviewed Rebecca Blank, a labor economist at the Commerce Department, to replace Austan Goolsbee as head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Another potential candidate under consideration is Alan Auerbach, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said another person. The job will be vacated by Goolsbee when he returns to the University of Chicago this summer.