Virtually everyone in Washington who regulates or lobbies for the banking industry has been invited to speak, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
It will also build upon a regulatory blueprint policymakers, including Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, issued in March.
This nutty professor is apparently read and taken seriously by half the policymakers in Washington, including Treasury Secretary Larry Summers--and don't you love the Summers dollar?
Equity markets soared Monday when Obama announced several of his top economic advisers, including Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner, and the proposed director of his National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers.
He's already put together a veteran team of advisers--including former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker--to help him with the transition.
If Geithner turns out to be his pick, it means Obama passed over several experienced hands who were considered favorites for the job, including former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker.
The Pittsburgh project will be overseen by a 12-member board consisting of four seats for environmentalists, four for industry and four for independent figures, including former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency chief.
Although he doesn't officially take up the reins of office until his inauguration on January 20, 2009, Obama and his economic team -- including nominee Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and nominee Chief of the National Economic Council Larry Summers -- have already outlined an ambitious raft of policy measures designed to kick-start the flagging U.S. economy.
But there are some voices of concern, including that of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.
The GOP letter was released as Pelosi met Monday morning with a group of economists, including Larry Summers, a treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
CNN: House GOP objects to spending in $150 billion stimulus package
Republicans, including U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow , are warning that a failure to extend the cuts will send the wrong message to the financial markets at a time when Hurricane Katrina is already weakening the economy.
Some of his advisors, including White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, also fear a veto now would poison some of the political goodwill associated with the budget deal.
The move comes a day after the president-elect announced his choices for key members of his economic team, including New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as Treasury secretary and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as chief of the National Economic Council.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew planned to raise issues including North Korea's nuclear program, China's exchange rate controls and cyberspying during his two day visit.
But there are some voices of concern, including that of Paul O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury secretary, who prodded the Japanese in a return visit to Tokyo in January.
As for Bono, investing in a publication that celebrates capitalism and consumption may seem to sit awkwardly with his crusades against world poverty, including a trip to Africa with Paul O'Neill, America's treasury secretary at the time.
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