Summers to Leave White House

[bpr]

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...the succession to the next FIRE Economy czar will be seamless. Potential heirs: Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein, and Vikram Pandit.

I confess naivete in hoping that EJ's wrong on this one.

[Chris Coles]

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WHY would Harvard EVER want Larry "everything I touch turns to shit" Summers back?

Thanks for that Doomer, I was thinking exactly the same thing when you beat me to it.

[doom&gloom]

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Thanks for that Doomer, I was thinking exactly the same thing when you beat me to it.

something tells me MANY of us think the same thing, I just happened to voice it first...

one think I know, my kids ain't goin' to no Harvard!

[jk]

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WHY would Harvard EVER want Larry "everything I touch turns to shit" Summers back?

he's got tenure.

[and he's well connected on wall street.]

[don]

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Then there's the Tony Blair path to riches and wealth beyond our imagination....

Tony Blair is a Social Entrepreneur!

To be a social entrepreneur, one must run a social enterprise (based on the definition which emerged under the Blair Government) or a social business (based upon the ClearlySo definition on our website). Social enterprises are socially oriented organisations “whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community”. With his net worth estimated to have rocketed from a net deficit to £15 million, there is little evidence that this is the main point of “Blair Inc.”

And that was in 2009

[c1ue]

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[don]

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Is Bernie Madoff eligible for a work-release program?

(Jessie's Cafe Americain)

[Slimprofits]

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Just like they insisted on a Hispanic woman and than Jewish woman for the Supreme Court, the Obama admin. is filling non-existent quotas with this position too.

They're saying it has to be a woman and absolutely cannot be a white male.

The top name being thrown about to replace Summers is the former CEO at Xerox, Anne Mulcahy. She dined with Valerie Jarrett earlier this week.

[Gnosis]

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Summers has always reminded me of a rotund "Barney" from the old T.V.show "The Andy Griffith Show". I can picture him ready to shoot himself or someone else. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[don]

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Just like they insisted on a Hispanic woman and than Jewish woman for the Supreme Court, the Obama admin. is filling non-existent quotas with this position too.

They're saying it has to be a woman and absolutely cannot be a white male.

The top name being thrown about to replace Summers is the former CEO at Xerox, Anne Mulcahy. She dined with Valerie Jarrett earlier this week.

Squeezing all the misdirection juice they can out of this one.

[phinolerun]

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I confess naivete in hoping that EJ's wrong on this one.

Agreed, but why would the outcome be any different than another proponent of FIRE policies. Since they're still in power, the status quo is likely to continue.

[tsetsefly]

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Just like they insisted on a Hispanic woman and than Jewish woman for the Supreme Court, the Obama admin. is filling non-existent quotas with this position too.

They're saying it has to be a woman and absolutely cannot be a white male.

The top name being thrown about to replace Summers is the former CEO at Xerox, Anne Mulcahy. She dined with Valerie Jarrett earlier this week.

I dont know if this is a joke or not, but I wouldn't be surprised at all...

[Slimprofits]

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That post was not at all a joke.

I'll try to be more clear on that from now on.

[Slimprofits]

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Rahm

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...=huffpo-direct

White House aides are preparing for the possibility that Rahm Emanuel may step down as chief of staff as soon as early October if he decides to run for mayor of Chicago, according to a person familiar with deliberations in the West Wing.

One issue hastening the timing of Emanuel's departure is concern over whether he can build a campaign operation while holding down the second most powerful job in the Federal Government. If he chooses to go forward with the mayoral race, Emanuel intends to be sensitive to the fact that his dual role could create the appearance of using his government office to his personal advantage, say two people familiar with internal deliberations.

The White House has already begun preparing a list of replacements for Emanuel, who could be replaced by an interim chief of staff if a suitable candidate is not decided upon in time. Names that have been floated as possible replacements for Emanuel include Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon; White House legislative strategist Philip Schiliro; White House counsel Bob Bauer; and Ron Klain, the chief of staff for Vice President Joe Biden.

[tsetsefly]

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That post was not at all a joke.

I'll try to be more clear on that from now on.

no need to, the story is so ridiculous one has to think it might be a joke... but like I said i was not surprised that it was true...