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Related: About this forumIs Obama's Treasury Nominee A Big Bank Crony?
"President Obama recently said he would love to hire a top executive into his administration. But for the job of Treasury secretary, he didn't pick a corporate executive, a famous economist or a former politician he has decided to tap a trusted adviser, White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew, an expert on the nation's ongoing budget wars."*
*Read more from Zachary A. Goldfarb, Jim Tankersley and Chris Cillizza/ Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-to-name-lew-treasury-secretary/2013/01/09/d6b91204-5a6b-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html
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Is Obama's Treasury Nominee A Big Bank Crony? (Original Post)
rachel1
Jan 2013
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)1. Was Tim?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Here we go again,all out push
by the Rethugs to discredit a appointee. New day and the expected results come from one of the most ignorant news rags in D.C.. Stupid is what Stupid does.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)3. Lew did spend a year as a bankster ...
But he didn't inhale.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)4. *Sigh*
Olly Olly Oligarchy
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)5. We The People are totally fucked. nm