盖特纳和奥巴马的首席经济顾问拉里·萨默斯（Larry Summers ） ， 是曾任美国财政部长、后来担任花旗集团董事会主席和高级顾问的罗伯特·鲁宾（Robert Rubin）的门徒，他们认同华尔街的文化，因而都不觉得接受华尔街银行家荒谬的逻辑是很困难的。
Geithner and Larry Summers, Obama’s chief economic advisor, share Wall Street’s culture as protégés of Robert Rubin, the former treasury secretary who went on to serve as a director and senior counselor at Citigroup. Neither man found it difficult to accept the bankers’ absurd logic.