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Reischauer, who will be replacing Houghton, was elected to the Board of Overseers in 1996 and served for six years before joining the Corporation. Corporation Fellow Robert E. Rubin ’60—the former Citigroup executive and Secretary of the Treasury??joined the group shortly before Reischauer in 2002. He did not serve previously as an Overseer...
...only specifics offered about the fund, so far, are speculative. In two parts, the Treasury??s plan describes first the “public-private financing component,” which could “leverage private capital on an initial scale of up to $500 billion, with the potential to expand up to $1 trillion.” Second, the plan proclaims that “private sector buyers [can] determine the price for current troubled and previously illiquid assets.” Why should private investment funds supply this capital? And why would private firms...
...billion of bailout funds already spent or allocated. Second, the provisions bypass large-time traders, brokers, and consultants, whose salary and bonuses often surpass the half-million-dollar limit. Third, healthier banks receiving funds through the Troubled Asset Relief Program will be effectively exempted from the provisions. Finally, the Treasury??s directives for increased financial transparency may pressure companies to reduce luxury spending, but they cannot entirely eliminate...
...discussed academic critiques of the Treasury??s bailout proposal and alternatives through which the government might help banks recapitalize, but did not indicate which approach he favored...
...been on Summers’ mind for some time. As a deputy secretary of the Treasury in 1997, Summers told attendees at a Washington conference that India had “not come close to fulfilling its potential” for development, according to remarks posted on the Treasury??s website. Today, Summers’–– trip takes place at a time of rising economic integration between rich and poor regions of the world. The shift “has the potential to be one of the three most important economic events...