Economics
Lew’s Lack of Geithner Global Rolodex Not Biggest Hurdle
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Jack Lew, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Treasury, won’t have the global experience of Secretary Timothy F. Geithner as he grapples with issues like Europe’s debt and China’s currency rate. It probably won’t matter.
Geithner had been a Treasury undersecretary for international affairs and an International Monetary Fund official before taking office in 2009. Lew, two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget, spent 22 months exposed to foreign affairs as a deputy secretary of state.