{"id":2446,"date":"2009-12-03T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T22:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2009-12-03T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T22:55:21","slug":"obama-kept-larry-and-moe-why-not-curly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2446\/obama-kept-larry-and-moe-why-not-curly\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Kept Larry and Moe; Why Not Curly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were three people at the center of the federal government&#8217;s response to the economic meltdown during the latter months of 2008.  President Obama still employs two.  Tim Geithner got a promotion from heading the New York Federal Reserve to Treasury Secretary.  Now <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125985187175274589.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories\" target=\"_blank\">Fed chief Ben Bernanke is up for rehire<\/a>.  And while the Senate Banking Committee had some heated words for the Fed&#8217;s handling of the worsening economic downturn, it offered &#8220;measured support&#8221; for the man responsible for handling the Fed.  This, despite labeling the Fed itself as a &#8220;failed&#8221; regulator doing a &#8220;horrible job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Bernanke is widely expected to be confirmed for a second term.  Coupled with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/alexspillius\/8174427\/Tim_Geithners_tax_evasion_\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geithner&#8217;s tax evasion<\/a>, one is left to wonder what could have possibly disqualified former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson from getting a plumb assignment in the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were three people at the center of the federal government&#8217;s response to the economic meltdown during the latter months of 2008. President Obama still employs two. Tim Geithner got a promotion from heading the New York Federal Reserve to Treasury Secretary. Now Fed chief Ben Bernanke is up for rehire. And while the Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[581,544,412,580],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ben-bernanke","tag-federal-reserve","tag-hank-paulson","tag-tim-geithner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}