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

[Sean Andrews]

I agree and certainly it is pointless, but if we were to have a suggestion,
who would you choose? Galbraith? Panitch, Gindin or Albo? How serious is
the technical angle or are there enough able staff at Treasury for this to
be at least sort of an ideas gig? If we were able to socialize the state,
who should we put in charge of Treasury? It's always good to have some
plans in place in case we stumble onto a revolution.

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Jan 5, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ha! You're such compromisers. Why not Doug Henwood as Treasury Secretary?
> >
> > Doug, how do your Wall Street credentials match up to those of Jack Lew,
> Erskine Bowles, Bob Altman, and Larry Fink?
>
> Terribly!
>
> I don't get these campaigns. There's no fucking way Obama would consider
> Krugman for a nanosecond. Why waste the time? Is it some degenerated Trot
> "impossible demands" strategy? Then why bother with a Princeton Nobelist?
> As Jack Kemp once said, if you're going to go for it, you should really go
> for it.
>
> DOug
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