President Obama has named a bunch of new members to his President's Council on Jobs and Competiveness, chaired by Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric. We will be tracking the performance of the publicly traded companies they represent as part of the FutureOfCapitalism Crony Capitalist Index.
Among the new players: Robert Wolf of UBS, Matt Rose of Warren Buffett-Berkshire Hathaway's Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad (high speed rail!), Brian Roberts of Comcast, Antonio Perez of Kodak, Richard Parsons of Citigroup, Paul Otellini of Intel, Ellen Kullman of DuPont, Gary Kelly of Southwest Airlines, and Kenneth Chenault of American Express.