[kabar]

LOL. If Geithner or any Treasury secretary had that kind of power, it would suspend belief.

[masadaman]

You may be LOL and you may be right, but TARP, QE1, QE2, the Stimulus, the protection of Fannie and Freddie etc. could not have come about with an independent Wall St. and market free from government influence at the highest levels. If government and Wall St. weren't joined at the hip,would we now have Dodd Frank? Sarbanes Oxley? Treasury and the Fed are not taken lightly on the Street and primary dealer permits aren't given out for Christmas.