Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Muna 2007, Elmendorf akatanga kushanda kune inozivikanwa inyanzvi yezvehupfumi iyo Brookings Institution, achigadzirisa pamwe chete bhuku rinoitwa kaviri pagore "Brookings Papers on Economic Activity". Muna 2008, Jason Furman, mutungamiriri weboka reBrookings rinozivikanwa seHamilton Project akasiya basa kuti abatane neboka raObama
. Elmendorf akamutsiva somutungamiriri wePurojekiti, musangano wokukurukurirana mitemo yezveupfumi uyo wakatangwa naBill Clinton's Secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin <unk> mutsigiri wekutengeserana kwakasununguka uye kushayikwa kuduku.