Obama’s Bailout Bunch Brings Us More of the Same

Jonathan Weil
Bloomberg
November 12, 2008

It’s hard to believe Barack Obama would even think of calling this change.

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Take a good look at some of the 17 people our nation’s president-elect chose last week for his Transition Economic Advisory Board. And then try saying with a straight face that these are the leaders who should be advising him on how to navigate through the worst financial crisis in modern history.

First, there’s former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Not only was he chairman of Citigroup Inc.’s executive committee when the bank pushed bogus analyst research, helped Enron Corp. cook its books, and got caught baking its own. He was a director from 2000 to 2006 at Ford Motor Co., which also committed accounting fouls and now is begging Uncle Sam for Citigroup- style bailout cash.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 10:02 am

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