Neel Kashkari? Who is he
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Who is Neel Kashkari?Whiz kid, bailout czar, $700 billion man, 35-year-old aerospace engineer and financier, former wrestler, the son of Indian immigrants, and now Neel Kashkari is interim head of the Office of Financial Stability.
From a family of scientists, he grew up in Stow, Ohio, graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in engineering and later received an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, first worked at Goldman Sachs during the summer between his two years at Wharton; had experience working on the James Webb Space Telescope for NASA contractor TRW; led Goldman’s IT Security investment banking practice, advising private and public companies on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions. Business Standard) He joined Treasury in 2006–examining the consequences of an economic housing fallout. (WSJ) A varied background for sure.What does Mr. Kashkari say about himself? "I am a free market Republican,” Neel Kashkari is believed to have said at an American Enterprise Institute Conference some time back."Business Standardsays:In a free market, investment banks, brokerages and insurance companies should have been allowed to go bankrupt without the government having to intervene and taxpayers having to make sacrifices to keep them afloat.
source:
http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/10/who-is-neel-kashkari.html
From a family of scientists, he grew up in Stow, Ohio, graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in engineering and later received an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, first worked at Goldman Sachs during the summer between his two years at Wharton; had experience working on the James Webb Space Telescope for NASA contractor TRW; led Goldman’s IT Security investment banking practice, advising private and public companies on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions. Business Standard) He joined Treasury in 2006–examining the consequences of an economic housing fallout. (WSJ) A varied background for sure.What does Mr. Kashkari say about himself? "I am a free market Republican,” Neel Kashkari is believed to have said at an American Enterprise Institute Conference some time back."Business Standardsays:In a free market, investment banks, brokerages and insurance companies should have been allowed to go bankrupt without the government having to intervene and taxpayers having to make sacrifices to keep them afloat.
source:
http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/10/who-is-neel-kashkari.html
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