Sen. Elizabeth Warren Mocked Larry Summers as Eva Peron in 2009,
Backs Janet Yellen to Head Federal Reserve   elizabeth warren
banks   Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - Massachusetts) is publicly
supporting Janet Yellen, current vice chairwoman of the Federal
Reserve, to head the agency.  This puts her at odds with those
within the White House, including allegedly President Obama, who
back Larry Summers to chair the Fed, although she has not
officially opposed Summers.  Thus far, there has been no
nomination, just mainstream media rumors of the White House
tilting in favor of Summers.  According to an article in the
Boston Globe on August 8, Warren openly mocked Summers in 2009
at Reagan National Airport:  Warren criticized the Obama
administration for not cracking down on big banks, and she
compared his advisers — including Summers specifically —
unfavorably to a country in South America that decades ago used
government funds to try to prevent banks from going under.  “Tim
[Geithner] and Larry’s whole plan is just