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Published: 07/22/10

Geithner: Elizabeth Warren Would Be Strong Consumer Chief -- as Would Others

By  Jill Lawrence - Politics Daily
Geithner: Elizabeth Warren Would Be Strong Consumer Chief -- as Would Others

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has nothing but good things to say these days about Elizabeth Warren, the consumer heroine liberals want to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created under the new financial reform law. Geithner has been widely reported to have reservations about Warren, a Harvard law professor and financial watchdog who proposed the consumer agency in 2007. He said Thursday that "she would be a very strong leader" of the new bureau, but made clear there are other good candidates and said twice that the decision lies with President Obama. Warren has "enormous ...

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