Cabinet building — Treasury edition

A lot of names have been floated for treasury secretary, but the three names that are most interensting to me are current FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich and two Nobel Prize-winning economists, Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz. You could do worse that choosing from this quartet. All are focused on homeowners, taxpayers and citizens — the consumers in this corporate economy — and believe that the people who took the risks that led to the banking meltdown should pay the price.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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