Obama’s Power Players: Geithner Faces His Hardest Challenge Yet – Amanda Ruggeri – But it is also his biggest opportunity: to put himself not only in Obama’s inner circle but in the history books.  Read 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Timothy Geithner. – U.S. News & World Report 

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Officials Weigh Having One Mortgage Regulator – By DAMIAN PALETTA – Senior Obama administration officials are discussing giving a federal agency authority to police mortgages and other consumer-oriented financial products as part of the government’s broader overhaul of financial regulation, people familiar with the matter said.  The entity would aim to address what many critics perceive is a blind spot in the existing regulatory structure, which spreads consumer protection across multiple agencies. – Wall Street Journal

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Is The Federal Reserve Overreaching? – Thomas F. Cooley – Systemic risk, and the best way to regulate it. - Forbes

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Government Actually Can Shrink?! – The idea of smaller government is usually just textbook material. But Canada has actually done it — look at the chart below from Cato … – supply and demand (in that order)  – Casey Mulligan