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Charles Ferguson, Bill Black, and Matt Taibbi on Jack Lew’s Appointment: Fail

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Article by Charles FergusonDemocracy Now video embedded below text.

The long-anticipated departure of Tim Geithner and theappointment of his successor, Jacob Lew, has broughtmuch discussion of Geithner’s record, his legacy, and the likely trajectory of theObama administrationtreasury department under Lew. In considering this question, I found inspiration in our most profound political philosophers. I refer, of course, toThe Who, in the finale of their immortal and highly relevantWon’t Get Fooled Again:
“Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss”
Consider first Geithner’s legacy, first as president of the New YorkFederal Reserve, then as treasury secretary. (Actually, his tendencies were evident even earlier, when he was carrying Larry Summers’ water during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.) As head of the New York Fed during the bubble, Geithner did – well, not much of anything: no regulation, no warnings, no protests about abuses or excesses, nada, zilch. Geithner was in the audience at Jackson Hole in 2005 whenRaghuram Rajan, then the IMF’s chief economist, delivered his now-famous warning about systemically dangerous incentives and risk-taking in the financial sector – a warning that Larry Summers slapped down publicly, and about which Geithner never uttered a public word, then or later.
Then came 2008, when, so far as we can determine, Geithner basically did everything that Hank Paulson



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