Kennard, the FCC's current general counsel, would succeed Reed Hundt if confirmed by the Senate.
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Alex Hundt, 49, was at the time running a global trading desk at HSBC.
George Hundt used to trade interest rate swaps at the midtown Manhattan office of JPMorgan Chase.
Hundt and Levin are fully aware of the current budget stalemate and the austere climate in Washington.
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The high optimism of Hundt and Levin stands in sharp contrast to a lingering dyspepsia in current economic theory.
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"Julius is collegial, deep and visionary, " says former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, Genachowski's boss at the commission more than a decade ago.
Hundt is a former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and is now CEO of the non-profit Coalition for Green Capital.
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The number of unemployed is at its lowest level in 20 years, Dieter Hundt, head of the employers' organisation, noted in a newspaper.
Authors Reed Hundt and Blair Levin argue from a unique vantage point, with deep immersion in both the policy and business end of technology deployment.
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Another twist on this idea is to require companies invest a portion in an infrastructure bank, as Reed Hundt, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently argued.
If nominated, Genachowski would be "the first FCC nominee ever to have previously hit the trifecta of being a venture capitalist, a tech executive and an entrepreneur, " Hundt says.
Hundt and Levin, however, are having none of this.
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Hundt and Levin, at least, fully expect those breakthroughs will arrive, if only the government can create the right incentives for private investors to create the kinds of platforms entrepreneurs require to unleash their creativity.
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But the authors, unfortunately, have less to say about ways governments large and small can jump-start growth by eliminating existing regulations that no longer contribute any value, but which increasingly slow the very investments in infrastructure for which Hundt and Levin argue so convincingly.
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