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Economist and Former US Treasury Secretary
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In the chaotic weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, he chaired the interagency working group that designed the $700 billion TARP framework, not as a bailout for Wall Street, but as a calibrated liquidity bridge to prevent systemic seizure of payment systems and commercial paper markets. His insistence on attaching strict capital repayment terms, stress-test mandates, and executive compensation limits reshaped how the U.S. government intervenes in financial crises. Unlike predecessors who prioritized bond markets over Main Street, he embedded labor-market indicators into Treasury’s real-time fiscal dashboards, arguing that unemployment duration, not just headline rates, was the true gauge of recovery health. He publicly challenged the Fed’s 2% inflation target in 2014, citing decades of wage stagnation evidence, and later co-authored the 'Dual Mandate Revision Act' draft legislation that proposed asymmetric inflation bands tied to median wage growth. His voice remains pivotal in debates over sovereign debt sustainability, especially how climate transition risks are priced into U.S. Treasury yield curves.
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