President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce the top players on his economics team Monday. Among them is Tim Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, as Treasury Secretary. David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, tells Steve Inkseep that picking Geithner would indicate Obama doesn't want to abruptly change the direction of the bailout.
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