Animal House universe-in-my-thumbnail UPDATE: Geithner: "We're going, like, existential."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, according to Noam Scheiber in New Republic, has completed his journey from "the administration's most controversy-prone member" to the "surprising survivor" of Obama's economic team. (In a recent New York Times profile, Geithner was called the the administration's economic "anchor."

Geithner is taking the lead on many of the administration's foremost financial agendas: reforming Fannie and Freddie, pressuring Republicans to raise the debt limit, and rewriting corporate tax rules.

But Noam Scheiber's lengthy new profile of Geithner suggests he won't be the man to drastically transform the financial landscape in the hopes of preventing future financial crises.

When Scheiber asked Geithner if he had "vision for the postcrisis landscape--for, say, a less bloated financial sector with a smaller role in the economy--and a map for how to get there" Geithner response was: "We're going, like, existential." Then he laid out his thoughts on financial regulation:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/14/geithner-gets-existential_n_822796.html

[HopeHoops]

1. "I'm not joking. Hey, This is my JOB!"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Animal House...33 years later, it's the gift that keeps on giving.

:rofl:

:toast:

[HopeHoops]

3. "Mine's bigger". - Have you seen the special features on the "Double Secret Probation" edition?

They "catch up" with a lot of the original cast in their current lives (as if the movie was a documentary). Damn is it funny.

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4. Yep...I bought the "D.S.P." edition the day it came out

That's one DVD where a "double dip" purchase was worth it.

[HopeHoops]

5. I liked Otter's OB/GYN office - "Doctor, I'm ready for my exam."

"I better get in there before her insurance runs out."