Neel Kashkari

Former Bailout Czar Signs On With Firm That Helped Run Bailout

Zachary Roth | December 9, 2009, 3:10PM

Neel Kashkari

What a difference a day makes.

On Sunday, we learned from a florid Washington Post profile that Neel Kashkari, the Treasury Department's one-time bailout czar, is now Thoreau-ing it up in the Northern California woods. (Sample line: "The moon hits his stubble, which is six days old.") But the very next day, the investment behemoth PIMCO announced that it had hired Kashkari as a managing director and the head of new investment initiatives.

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