Felix Salmon finds this little nugget in a NY Mag profile of Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO. It turns out that Sandy Weill, the guy who in the 1990s built Citi into the mammoth systemic risk Death Star it is today wanted the job to go to Tim Geithner.
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