Reaction Radio

Good work by the AP in getting a copy of Treasury Secretary’s Tim Geithner’s phone log, which shows that he was quite busy during the first-half of the year speaking to Wall Street bankers. These stories are fun reads and I recently did one based on FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair’s datebook.

To me, the most interesting thing to come out of the Geithner call list is the revelation that he spoke several times with both Citigroup Chairman Dick Parsons and Citi CEO Vikram Pandit. Now, given the dicey situation Citi is in, that’s not surprising. But compare this to Bair’s dealings with Citi–in which she all but kept Pandit at arms length this summer.