tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/6/2008
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It would be a really bad start to his administration if President Obama picked a Treasury Secretary who shares a substantial part of the blame for the bubble economy and the financial crisis. It will not be easy to pick up the pieces and get the economy back on its feet, but we would be going ...
feministe.us - 11/9/2008
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feministe.us —
Larry Summers in on Obama’s (very) short-list for
Treasury Secretary. The other option is Timothy Geithner, president...
of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. I know any president is going to disappoint us — even (or perhaps especially) ...
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Larry Summers for Treasury Secretary?
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/13/2008
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Larry Summers At Treasury: A Fox in the Henhouse
Open Left - Front Page —
Right now, the rumors are that Larry Summers is the choice for the Treasury Secretary post. As Dean Baker suggests, this would not be a good thing. ...
Obama's Clintonesque Instincts
TalkLeft —
... Right now, the rumors are that Larry Summers is the choice for the Treasury Secretary post. As Dean Baker suggests, this would not be a good thing. ...
Summers Out as Treasury Pick?
Open Left - Front Page —
... I don't know Rivlin, but Bair and Born would seem like excellent choices. Dean Baker likes Bair, who is a Republican and has done a good job at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Brooksley Born is another one who fought aggressively in the 1990s to regulate the derivatives market, only to be undermined by the good old boys of Rubin, Summers, and Greenspan and their industry allies. Any of these candidates would send a strong message that business as usual is over. ...
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Given the unusually crisis-plagued environment into which Obama will be stepping, he will want to move ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/25/2008 — The Page lists the following candidates :
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The Treasury Secretary Speculation
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com 11/6/2008 — There is plenty of speculation this morning about possible nominees for Treasury Secretary. Bloomberg mentions former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and NY Fed President Tim Geithner: Summers, 53, is favored to return to the Treasury post ...
Geithner Becomes Treasury Secretary
firedoglake.com 1/27/2009 — The Senate has passed him through. I'm sure he will do as good a job for Obama as he did for Bush, Bernanke and Paulson.
Geithner likely to be Treasury Secretary
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 11/21/2008 — From Chuck Todd and Andrea MitchellNBC News has learned that the president-elect is preparing to roll out his economic team on Monday -- and will personally announce the team and answer questions -- part of an effort to reassure markets. ...
Geithner Said to Be Named Treasury Secretary
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 11/21/2008 — Timothy F. Geithner is a Treasury veteran who as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has all year been at the center of the worsening economic crisis.
NOW President Questions Summers As Treasury Secretary
huffingtonpost.com 11/7/2008 — Since Barack Obama has signaled that his transition team will move quickly, it shouldn't come as a surprise that advocacy organizations are acting just as fast to register their opinions.
On Wednesday morning, National Organization for Women ...
Authors regard Obama as a peer —
msnbc.com: Politics 11/6/2008
For Toni Morrison and other authors, the election of Barack Obama matters not because he will be the first black president, or because most writers vote Democratic. Writers are welcoming Obama as a peer, a thinker, a man of words — his own words.
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