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Summers Vs. Geithner for Treasury Chief

Democrats divided on pick

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 7, 2008 12:55 PM CST

(Newser) – The top candidates to become Treasury secretary, Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner, have Democrats split, and Politico looks at the resumes of both. Summers is a brilliant economist and close Obama adviser, but hardly smells of change, having backed deregulation and free-market strategies as Clinton’...   Read full story »

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