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Daily Kos — ... $11 trillion in household wealth has been wiped out. Home values, 401(k) retirement plans, brokerage accounts -- poof, gone. It's hardly surprising that traumatized consumers are boycotting the stores, threatening yet more bankruptcies and losses for the banks. William Kristol: Look! They don't know what they're doing!! I insist they tell everyone immediately. David Ignatius: The continuing Villager case against the Clintons. Noam Scheiber: You thought Gaithner was a good pick? It's better than that. Jonathan ...

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — In an addendum to his article, Noam Scheiber imagines how Geithner and Summers will divide up work: 1.) Substantively, Geithner will have the chief responsibility for resuscitating and reforming the financial markets, an area where he’s developed extensive expertise at the New York Fed. Summers will, in turn, be the guy the administration defers to on broad macroeconomic decisions--how big a stimulus bill should be, how the money should be allocated between unemployment benefits, aid to states, infrastructure projects, tax cuts, etc. (One thing to ...