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Sub-Prime Mess Likely to Surface in Commerce Secretary Confirmation

The news that President-elect Barack Obama may pick his national finance chair, Penny Pritzker, for secretary of commerce raises a couple of questions.
Pritzker, a Chicago billionaire and hotel heiress, was a major contributor to Obama’s presidential campaign and ran his record-breaking fund-raising juggernaut. This alone would seem to be problematic for a president-elect who ran [...]