To let the Obama people know that you won't feel happy if Summers, with all his baggage, is appointed as BIG MONEY-Spending Czar in the new administration, you can contact the Transition at http://change.gov/page/s/yourvision and just spill your guts.
Here's some more ammunition: Not only did Summers actively oppose the establishment of some oversight over the credit default swap market throughout his tenure at Treasury (first under Rubin and then as the Big T himself), but he's now a managing director of DE Shaw, a very large hedge fund. (Joined it late in 2006. The fund makes money buying distressed businesses. How rich is that? Lehmann Bros invested in it, ha ha!) I finally checked out our bad boy's recent BIO on Wikipedia. Up till then, I'd thought LS was just a globe-trotting Harvard prof. with a monthly column in the Financial Times, making his living giving speeches and interviews. (You can hear him self-justify in 2007 on Boston's radio interview show On Point .)
Think I'm off the wall about this guy? Know more about him that I should researh? You can comment directly at the end of this post, or email me at jwagner@bethesda20817.net.
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