WSJ: Citi's Chief Economist Leaves for Treasury Post

[jordi_fanclub]

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Citigroup Inc.'s chief economist is leaving the New York company for a job at the U.S. 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 Treasury "to work on domestic financial issues," said the Citigroup memo, which was sent Tuesday.

According to a government official, Mr. Alexander will be a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Mr. Alexander and a Treasury spokesman weren't immediately available to comment Tuesday. A Citigroup spokesman declined to elaborate on the company's memo.
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Mr. Alexander's role as Citigroup's chief economist didn't entail significant management responsibilities. But his optimistic economic forecasts colored executives' views that the U.S. was unlikely to face a prolonged slump.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123732747181462245.html

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Another fox in the henhouse!

"I think that's not going to spill over more broadly into the economy, and so I think we're going to have a normal kind of housing cycle that's going to last through the middle of this year," Mr. Alexander said in a Feb. 28, 2007, interview on PBS."

[Triana]

1. Greaaat. Another looter/thief from Wall Street in the Treasury. n/t

[nashville_brook]

2. what. the. FUUUUUUUUUUCK! is it that Obama wants these people or has no choice?

b/c this just doesn't make any kind of *normal* sense.

[fascisthunter]

3. Wall Street looks bad on a Resume from my Perspective

it's too bad its so damn prevalent in D.C...

No conflicts of interests there... gotta give the person the benefit of my doubt? I don't think so...

[Tansy_Gold]

4. Just continuing a time-tested tradition

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=7922946

This is the thread from Nov. '08 when Obama first chose Geithner and Summers. I was flamed royally, but I did not back down.

On one post in that thread, I stated that I was refraining from hauling out the rubber stamp.







restraint removed

from/by


Tansy Gold

[bvar22]

6. LOL.

Thanks for posting that thread.
You weren't alone, merely outnumbered by the cheer leaders.
:toast:

[amandabeech]

17. Go get 'em, Tansy!! n/t

[flyarm]

5. wow my confidence in Obama's economy just jumped up to about.........

zero!!!!!!!!

It was at Zero with Tim Geithner at Treasury!!!!!!!!
Tim who worked for 3 years at Kissingers firm..and then the CFR.........

look into the back ground of Geithners dad , Peter Geithner and his ties to Obama;s mom and step dad!!


See Obama sent Kissinger To Russia shortly after becoming president to represent the Obama administration in Russia..
Kissinger who held positions with Nixon, Ford and Reagan !!!!!!!!!!!!

this kissinger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GThfWVCfjVo&eurl=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85442

"There is a need for a new world order," Kissinger told PBS interviewer Charlie Rose last year, "I think that at the end of this administration, with all its turmoil, and at the beginning of the next, we might actually witness the creation of a new order – because people looking in the abyss, even in the Islamic world, have to conclude that at some point, ordered expectations must return under a different system."


This is the Kissinger Obama sent to Russia........representing his administration..

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82may/hershwh2.htm

Kissinger and Nixon in the White House
by Seymour M. Hersh


http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0611-03.htm

the only confidence I have is hiding my money under my mattress!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait for the next presser...and the song will be sung.....

Everything is beautiful
In its' own way

[No Elephants]

7. Before you put it under your mattress, you might want to convert it to

gold. Doesn't make for comfy sleeping, but it prevents that Confederate money syndrome.

[slipslidingaway]

11. In case you missed this clip...

Kissinger calls on Obama to create a New World Order
about 3 minutes
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=265549&mesg_id=265549

direct youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD3BqK-9ZiU

This is why Kissinger was at the NYSE...
http://www.ncuscr.org/programs/ncuscr-rings-nyse-opening-bell

[flyarm]

15. thank you!! i have that video posted already..but will look into the other article..

it is the top video i have posted.

thanks

[slipslidingaway]

16. My mistake as I did not view your youtube link and ASSumed it

was related to Charlie Rose, but you're welcome :)

also...
http://www.ncuscr.org/who-we-are/board-directors


:shrug:

[flyarm]

8. funny how these stories die around DU now..used to be this would be

top of the greatest!!!!!!!!!

not any more apparently.

[WriteDown]

9. Anyone else here that music?

The same kind that they play at the circus when the clowns come out? :(

[Robbien]

10. Another bankster to join the other banksters surrounding Obama

Have they kicked all non-banksters out of DC yet?

[mikelgb]

12. are there any hens left?

[Deja Q]

14. No, but rumor mill has it the McNuggets and Egg mcMuffins just dropped in price.

Afterthought: The McChicken came before the McEgg after all. I mean, if the egg came it'd be pretty boring...

[DemWynner]

13. I think it is another faux in the henhouse! NT