Rethinking Elizabeth Warren

摘要

When Harry Reid summoned Elizabeth Warren to Washington in November 2008 to run the Congressional Oversight Panel monitor-ng the federal bank bailout Program, it was as if the Oklahoma plains had risen Up and found a voice. The country was reeling from economic collapse, bank bonuses were about to be paid, and Warren, a polite, politically astute Harvard University bankruptcy scholar, applied her academic skills to building an intellectual case against Wall Street. It came out like a war cry. "People are angry because they are paying for programs that haven't been fully explained, and that have no apparent benefit for their families or the economy as a whole, but still seem to leave enough cash in the system for lavish bonuses and golf outings," Warren complained to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at a May 2009 hearing. "None of this seems fair."