Quid's commie pick for Comptroller of the currency
Cornell law professor Saule Omarova has been chosen by Quid to be Comptroller of the Currency ;a branch of the Treasury Dept.
She was born in the former Soviet Union in Kazakhstan. She graduated from Moscow State U and has a record of praising Soviet policies .Her thesis is "Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital".
Last week Sen Pat Toomey asked her to hand over a copy of her thesis in English and in original Russian to the Senate Banking committee She has scrubbed it from her curriculum vitae (CV) at Cornell . To date she has not complied with the request leading to the obvious question ;what is she hiding ? But she counters with typical blame shifting claiming that she is under attack because she is a minority woman immigrant .(If she was an LGBTQXYZ she would check off all the boxes in the Dem vetting process)
She told Financial Times "There is definitely a different standard applied to someone like me," She said that she believes the criticism leveled against her is racist .
What we do know is that if she had her way ,she would move consumer banking from the private to public control .
Biden pick to run bank regulator faces Democratic resistance in Senate (cnbc.com)
She has proposed to create a new central banking institution called the National Investment Authority (NIA), that would be a "public entity that acts directly in financial markets and acts as a venture capitalist, as a private equity investor, as a lender, as a guarantor, as an insurer, to basically make it easier, not only for the public capital but for the private capital to flow into more sustainable industries rather than into the dying industries."
In her interview with Chris Hayes she claims that this institution would not be a central planner . But it sure sounds like one to me . Why Is This Happening?: Saving the economy with Saule Omarova: podcast and transcript (nbcnews.com)
This NIA would have an unelected board appointed by the President to terms of 10 to 12 years like the Fed .It would would provide banking and investment services directly to industries and projects favored by the federal government. It would,be "the asset manager, like a private equity firm, like a venture capital firm like BlackRock," except instead of being run by private interests , it would operate on behalf of the collective, with the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. It would be the "public manager" that "will select" investment projects for the country, but "not on the basis of what is the most profitable" in the short term. Since the government accepts long term debt spending then it would not have to be concerned about the return of investment for funding utopian projects like making over the nation to a total green new deal.
Her plan could not be officially implemented without Congress .But as comptroller over 1200 institutions ,she would have a hell of a lot of regulatory clout to implement some of her more radical ideas .