[lbo-talk] Mark Weisbrot: Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama's pick for US treasury secretary

[Sean Andrews]

If we've learned anything from the Tea Party it's that mediating your
demands to fit in the limits of the mainstream does little to win
concessions for your side. Better we just go ahead and push him to nominate
Yves Smith or Nomi Prins (the latter was at Goldman for a while so she
might be a shoe-in ;-).  In that spectrum, Krugman seems like a centrist.

Jeff Sachs and Joe Stiglitz would also be interesting - though I don't know
what kind of technical proficiency you need to bet treasury secretary at
this point.

After listening to Bill Bartlett on Doug's show, I would love to see him
reprise his administrative position. He should be an easy sell given that
he worked for the Gipper, but man does he hate the contemporary GOP.

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>wrote:


> Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama's pick for US treasury secretary
>>
>
> If he didn't pick Elizabeth Warren for the Consumer Financial Protection
> Bureau, he's not going anywhere near Krugman for SECTREAS.  The fact is
> that Obama and Krugman don't see anywhere near eye-to-eye, so that would
> take the Team of Rivals concept way too far.
>
> SECTREAS has to be someone that can soothe things in the back room when
> POTUS gets out in front of a sticky subject to the banksters.  Krugman
> wouldn't be let in the door, thus rendering him useless to Obama.
>
> /jordan
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