Posted on 03/18/2009 5:50:02 AM PDT by ninonitti
Citigroup Inc.'s chief economist is leaving the company for a job at the Treasury Department, according to an internal Citigroup memo.
Lewis Alexander, who has been at Citigroup since 1999 and before that worked at the Federal Reserve, will head to the Treasury "to work on domestic financial issues," said the Citigroup memo, which was sent Tuesday.
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So at least he's not from Goldman Sachs - is this an Obama move toward diversity?
Timmy the Wunderkind will have someone new in his playgroup.
Nice way to avoid mentioning if he was, perhaps, a lobbyist, as I suspect.
Obama, the all-knowing and all-powerful, is lucky to be the smartest man in the world. Otherwise, choosing people from failed bailout companies to staff his government would lead to trouble. Fortuantely, MSNBC told us that we can trust Obama to make all the decisions in our lives.
Citigroup executive playing the role of proud father of the bride:
"We're not losing an economist, we're gaining a sugar daddy..."
Great. So an economist from Citi who couldn’t see this train wreck a-comin’ is now going to advise Geithner. We’re doomed.
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