IMF Spokeswoman Atkinson Tapped To Be Obama's International Economics Adviser

[ej510]

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--International Monetary Fund chief spokeswoman Caroline Atkinson is heading to the White House to advise the president on international economics, the fund said Thursday.

Atkinson, a longtime colleague of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, will replace John Lipton as Special Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs. Lipton has been named as first deputy director at the IMF.

The Lipton and Atkinson appointments give the U.S., the IMF's biggest and most powerful shareholder, an open channel of communications between the White House and the fund.

Atkinson was primary adviser on international monetary and financial policy to former Treasury secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers in the 1990s, including during Asia's financial crisis. During her previous tenure at the IMF, Atkinson worked on a number of projects, including the Latin American debt crisis and development of Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism, which laid the foundation for the European Union and the euro.

Atkinson rejoined the IMF in 2004. Four years later, former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn promoted Atkinson from deputy director for the Western Hemisphere to director of external relations. She was tapped in 2009 to be Geithner's undersecretary for international affairs, but withdrew from consideration after facing a tough nomination approval process in the Senate.

Read more at the link: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110728-720143.html

[arcane1]

1. My reaction to the IMF is always the same:

:puke::puke:

:puke::puke:

:puke::puke:

[EFerrari]

2. LOL. Good to know IMF vultures are still getting good jobs.

:)

[Angry Dragon]

3. ..............

:silly: :argh:

[dgibby]

4. Let me guess.

He's found a job for another repuke.

[QC]

5. Nobody at Goldman wanted the job? n/t

[zalinda]

6. Apparently, it's very difficult to even look for a lefty

that knows anything about economics, domestic or international, much less hire one. :sarcasm:

zalinda

[Scottybeamer70]

7. IMF birds of a feather............

the flock is thickening!

[ej510]

8. Obama is a third way deomcrat.