MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Geithner has always stood foursquare in the center of economic orthodoxy, wherever it might be at the time. He’s no bomb-thrower, and will never think of himself as someone who speaks truth to power, in the way that the likes of Sheila Bair and Neil Barofsky do. Rather, he epitomizes power: yesterday, for instance, he rejoined the Council on Foreign Relations, the American perma-Davos on Park Avenue, where the great and the good mingle self-importantly and (mostly) in smug and well-cushioned secrecy. There he will work closely with (and was probably recruited by) Bob Rubin, setting up Advisory Committees and Workshops and Independent Task Forces and Plenary Sessions and Invitation-Only Roundtables, all the while mingling with the bankers and policymakers and politicians who might delude themselves that they’re working for the greater good, but who are convinced that the rest of us just couldn’t handle being exposed to what goes on behind the CFR’s expensively-paneled doors.
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Like everybody else. One leg at a time.
by cmaukonen on Sat, 02/09/2013 - 10:58pm