STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 18 April 2014

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10. Elizabeth Warren's New Book Skewers The White House Boys Club

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/elizabeth-warren-book_n_5170018.html

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's new book skewers the boys club who basically ran the nation's fiscal policy in the early days of the Obama administration, contending they carried out a financial bailout that saved the banks but was a major "lost opportunity" to help regular people.

A Fighting Chance, due out next week, makes the case that America needs its government to look out for the metaphorical little guy.

While the Massachusetts Democrat details the successes she had working with the White House and President Barack Obama in those days, she also reveals the constant tension between her -- an outsider and a woman -- and the men on the inside.

She doesn't always say it directly and she usually cuts the sting with some praise, but Warren seems particularly disappointed with two of the lions of Obama's economic team: former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and former National Economic Council boss Larry Summers.

In the case of Summers, whom Warren knew vaguely from their shared days at Harvard -- when as university president, he made unfortunate comments about women in science -- she was warned about being an outsider during what seems to have been a not-so-pleasant dinner.