Not only is he floating Summers at Treasury, but the short list, according to what I have seen in the press, seems to consist of:
1) Summers 2) Wall Street The second is especially troubling in the context of the bailout. Because of the bailout, the next Treasury Secretary is going to be directly picking winners and losers on Wall Street. Isn't it a massive conflict of interest for the Treasury Secretary to be drawn from - likely returning to - the same group of folks? It's striking that the Dems don't even seem to consider someone from manufacturing, never mind a progressive. Under Bush, you got O'Neill. Whatever his other faults, at least he represented some perspective of the productive sector as opposed to finance. Historically the manufacturers are pro-growth compared to finance. Shouldn't - at least - someone from the production sector be on the short list? On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > >> And he's one of us. > > Yeah, that's why he appointed Rahm Emanuel and is floating the name of Larry > "Africa Is Vastly Underpolluted" Summers. > > Doug > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ambassador Pickering on Iran Talks and Multinational Enrichment http://youtube.com/watch?v=kGZFrFxVg8A _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
