Obama choses his leaders

Obama said he sought leaders who share his fundamental belief that “we cannot have a thriving Wall Street without a thriving Main Street.” 

Obama has chosen Tim Geithner as treasury secretary and Larry Summers as chief of the National Economic Council.  Geither was New York Federal Reserve President and Summers was a previous treasury secretary.  Also chosen were Melody Barnes, as director of the Domestic Policy Council; Heather Higginbottom as deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council and Christina Romer as the chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.