Advanced seed chipping machines inside Monsanto agribusiness headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. Photograph by Brent Stirton/Getty Images. By Alex Kotch President Donald Trump’s pick to help lead a key financial regulatory agency is married to the top lobbyist for Monsanto—a company over which she will have oversight—and until last year did lobbying work for an industry she will also oversee, federal …
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Former Treasury Secretary Cashes In
Tim Geithner, apparently now tanned and rested after a long six years of financial crisis, is going back to work. The former Treasury secretary and New York Fed chief will be president and managing director of Warburg Pincus, the private equity firm. The brickbats are flying fast…The critique boils down to: Of course Tim Geithner is going to make …