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The Daily 202: Elizabeth Warren wins another battle in war on Wall Street
— Robert Litan has joined a growing fraternity of powerful Democrats and Republicans who lost jobs because of Elizabeth Warren.
Just a few hours after The Daily 202 broke the news that the Massachusetts senator was taking on the Brookings Institution over industry-financed research produced by Litan, the think tank sought and received his resignation. The veteran of the Clinton administration, who directed Brookings’ Economic Studies Program before becoming a non-resident senior fellow, is listed on the think tank’s web site this morning as a “Former Expert.”
Earlier this year, Warren blocked investment banker Antonio Weiss from becoming the third-ranking official at the Treasury Department. In 2013, Warren’s opposition helped torpedo Larry Summers’ lifelong dream of becoming Federal Reserve chairman—despite the fact he was reportedly promised the job by the White House.
Wall Street types call Warren a lot of nasty things, but demagogue is the most printable.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/09/30/the-daily-202-elizabeth-warren-wins-another-battle-in-war-on-wall-street/
