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The Real Reason Geithner Is Afraid of Elizabeth Warren

The Real Reason Geithner Is Afraid of Elizabeth Warren

By John R. Talbott writing at Huffington Post

Elizabeth Warren, chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP, testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on how TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) funds have been used on Capitol Hill in Washington on February 5, 2009. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg) Photo via Newscom Photo via Newscom

As reported on HuffPost last week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has expressed opposition to the possible nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a source with knowledge of Geithner’s views.

One can assume that Geithner, being very close to the nation’s biggest banks, is concerned that Warren, if chosen, will exercise her new policing and enforcement powers to restrict those abusive practices at our commercial banks that have been harmful to consumers and depositors.

Certainly, Warren is not the commercial banking industry’s first pick to serve in this new role. And unlike other legislation in which an industry’s lobbying effort would naturally slow or cease once the legislation is passed, the new financial reform bill is continuing to attract enormous lobbying action from the banks. The reason is simple. The bill has been written to put a great deal of power as to how strongly it is implemented in the hands of its regulators, some of which remain to be chosen. The bank lobby will work incredibly hard to see that Warren, the person most responsible for initiating and fighting for the idea of a consumer financial protection group, is denied the opportunity to head it.

But this is not the only reason that Geithner is opposed to Warren’s nomination. I believe Geithner sees the appointment of Elizabeth Warren as a threat to the very scheme he has utilized to date to hide bank losses, thus keeping the banks solvent and out of bankruptcy court and their existing management teams employed and well-paid.

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