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Michael J. Panzner: Treasury Officials Meet With Financial Bloggers

Source: Huffington Post

Nov 04, 2009

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Taking its cue, perhaps, from the Obama Administration's reported efforts to reach out to the political blogging community in the hopes of cultivating broad support for its ambitious agenda, the Treasury yesterday organized a meeting between various Department officials and a group of economics and finance bloggers.

Among the bloggers who attended the "discussion," which centered on financial reform, the Treasury's efforts to stabilize the financial system, and the challenges ahead, were the publishers of Naked Capitalism, Interfluidity, Marginal Revolution, Kid Dynamite’s World, Across the Curve, Accrued Interest, The Aleph Blog, and Financial Armageddon (one of my two blogs).

While Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith has done a good job in "Curious Meeting at Treasury Department" of summing up what transpired -- which, admittedly, left most of us feeling like we had more questions after it ended than when it started -- I did learn a few things at the gathering that I found particularly interesting: