Reply #2: Wapo did an article on the same thing the day before. Politico is riffing off that [View All]

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Understaffed Geithner can't keep up, critics say

By DANIEL WAGNER
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 5, 2009; 10:27 AM

WASHINGTON -- For five weeks, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has battled the worst economic crisis in generations with no key deputies in place. That's made for a rocky debut for the man President Barack Obama put in charge of addressing the financial crisis.
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Among the harshest critics of Treasury's leadership vacuum is Paul Volcker, an Obama economic adviser and former Federal Reserve chairman who last week called the situation "shameful."

"The secretary of the treasury is sitting there without a deputy, without any undersecretaries, without any, as far as I know, assistant secretaries responsible in substantive areas at a time of very severe crisis," Volcker said. "He shouldn't be sitting there alone."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030501358_pf.html