Geithner's Wall Street Connection

There is no evidence Geithner or Summers is corrupt by any legal definition even though Summers had been paid handsomely by Wall Street for very little consulting work and speech making while he was president of Harvard, a curious side job for arguably the most prestigious academic job in the United States. Did he have insufficient work to do at Harvard?

However, as James Kwak, co-author of Baseline Scenario, a respectable economics blog, has so eloquently pointed out, Geither, Summers cannot but share many of values of Wall Street especially given their close connections to Goldman Sachs, the ultimate symbol of Wall Street culture. Read Here.

Those shared values played the central role in Geithner/Summers's bailout plan that is so biased in favored of the very bankers that had themselves helped manufacturer the biggest financial disaster since the Great Depression.

It is also instructive to note that Geither wants to kick out Vikram Pandit at Citibank as a belated acknowledgement that senior Wall Street bankers had behaved badly.

Yet, a cursory look at Vikram Pandit's cv shows he had been at his job for about a year, long after Citibank under previous tutelage of Bob Rubin, former Goldman Sachs co-chair and mentor of Larry Summers had done their damage at Citigroup.

How come no one at Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley have been singled out for a little public humiliatio, but Pandit who was never a Goldman Sachs alumnus?