Whalen is far from being any kind of left-sympa. He advocates just letting 'em burn. He'd be happy joining Major Kong on the H-Bomb, whooping on the way down to financial Armageddon. He can barely pronounce Barney Franks name without cussing.
He does seem to crunch his numbers correctly though. And there's a lot of similar muttering on the likes of CNBC. If I was BO, I'd be wondering WTF Geithner is doing. And he saddled himself with Larry Summers, a man whose modesty knows no bounds and lets everyone know it. Something has to give soon.
--- On Sun, 3/8/09, Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Geithner gone by June
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 11:42 AM
> This is the opinion of Chris Whalen (although said with a
> slight smirk),
> widely considered to be one of the country's chief
> banking analysts.
> >From the same interview, 'The only reason he's
> there is to protect Goldman
> Sachs'.
>
> (Interestingly enough, Whalen's CV states that he was
> an adviser to
> Cauhtémoc Cardenas, the former left-of-center Mexican
> presidential candidate
> from the PRD.)
>
> Linl to interview:
> http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1079049304/bctid14954864001
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