The newly-minted chief White House economic adviser, on Fox News Sunday:

GOOLSBEE: But I don’t think the unemployment rate will be coming down significantly anytime in the near future.
WALLACE: Do you think it will — you’ll be — it’s now 9.6 percent. End of this year?
GOOLSBEE: I don’t — look, I try to stay out of the specific forecasting games other than our official forecast. I think it’s clear that the labor market is significantly weakened, has been for some time. We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work.
WALLACE: Could it be 10 percent by the end of the year?
GOOLSBEE: Look, as I say, I’m not going to speculate. We have official forecasts and we’ll release them when they come out.
WALLACE: But you don’t expect…
GOOLSBEE: We need to do everything…
WALLACE: … it to go down appreciably from…
GOOLSBEE: I don’t expect it to go down appreciably. That’s what — our forecast, and most of the private forecasts say the same thing.

Here’s the video of the interview.