WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker's role as a presidential adviser appears uncertain, observers of Obama administration economic policy said.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- An international economists group led by a U.S. adviser to President-elect Barack Obama unveiled Thursday a plan to extensively overhaul banking regulations.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Paul Volcker, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's special economic adviser, says Americans have been living above their means for too long.

CHICAGO, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama named Paul Volcker and Austan Goolsbee to a new President's Economic Advisory Board.

LAKE WORTH, Fla., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Presidential contender Barack Obama presided over a session on the economy Tuesday in Florida, joined by four Democratic governors from swing states.

WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain passed UPI's Oil 101 this week with his gutsy call for extending offshore drilling around the United States. Sen. Barack Obama didn't, for betting the house on "clean" energy technologies that don't even exist yet.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- John Edwards' endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama won't help the Democrats' front-runner with the white working class, but it marks a major step in the coalescing of the party's establishment elite around Obama, further isolating Hillary Clinton.

WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton's landslide victory over Sen. Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary Tuesday brings her no closer to winning the Democratic presidential nomination, but it is still a major blow for Obama.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Sept 5, 2007.