I think Dean Baker would make a good Secretary of the Treasury. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Robert Naiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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