The $700 Billion Man

The article linked below is a very interesting piece on Neel "Cash-n-Carry" Kashkari, the Treasury aide who was tapped as "Bailout-Out czar" more than a year ago and placed in charge of $700 billion in government funds.

It tells the story of his time there, and the recovery period since that he considers a kind of "detox." Interestingly enough, his way of regaining the sanity the Beltway had stripped him of involved retreating to the mountains to live much the way many of us do or otherwise aspire to in the future.

He and his wife retreated to a cabin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains out west and regained for themselves what they had lost through exercise, fresh air and starry night skies. Sounds like the life to me!

LINK: The $700 billion man - washingtonpost.com.

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