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Neel Kashkari in the thick of Washington

A Hollywood agent has called WaPo‘s Laura Blumenfeld and her “$700 Billion Dollar Man” might be optioned for a film.

In December 2009, Blumenfeld wrote a lengthy feature on former Treasury Department official Neel Kashkari. In 2006, Kashkari helped create the TARP program and then, through a “freakish” set of circumstances, was appointed to be Treasury Sec. Hank Paulson’s federal bailout chief. After seven months, he resigned and fled Washington for a Northern Cali cabin in the woods.

A short list of things he wanted to do besides being in Washington overworking himself and destroying his relationship with his wife:
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