Sperling Expected to Leave White House by Year’s End

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): Gene Sperling, one of President Barack Obama’s top economic advisers, is expected to leave the White House later this year, vacating a key spot in the Obama administration’s inner circle, several people familiar with the matter said.

Mr. Sperling is director of the White House’s National Economic Council, a central post for the policy and political strategy that go into economic proposals.

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