1. Robert Rubin..Obama's financial adviser during campaign:
* Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations
* Rubin , as Clinton's Treasury Sec.
strongly opposed the regulation of derivatives.
He helped cause the current finanacial meltdown!!!! * Joined Citibank days after leaving Clinton WH, just after Glass-Steagal Act was repealed.
Rubin's leadership at Citibank has been implicated in the creation of the sub-prime crisis.
Read Wiki for much much more on why Rubin is a major player in the Financial disasters we are experiencing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_RubinRubin's long time pals have been picked for the Obama Admin.
2. Timothy Franz Geithner...picked as Treasury Secretary:
* worked for Kissinger and Associates in Washington, D.C., for three years ( 95-98, I think)
* Member Council for Foreign Relations ( CFR)
* worked for IMF 2001-2003
* arranged sale of Bear Stearns
3. Larry Summers
* World Bank chief Economist 91-93
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long-time political mentor was/is Robert Rubin, CFR member * was Rubin's Deputy Treasuey Sec. under Clinton.
*ardent proponent of free trade and globalization
* signed off a memo stating developed countries ought to export more pollution to developing
countries.
* long history of controversy and conflicts of interest resulting in financial gain, not supportive of
progressive ideas.
I hve a bad bad feeling about all this.