On a popular talk show, Oscar Lafontaine made this provocative comparison: "To put a former Goldman Sachs chairman in charge of the US Treasury (and the US rescue operation to combat the financial crisis) is like putting a drug baron in office to fight the war on drugs."

to read Klaus C. Engelen's article published in the fall of 2008, visit
www.international-economy.com/TIE_F08_Engelen.pdf