Kashkari and Power Tools

The hits just keep coming for Neel Kashkari, the youngest member of Hank Paulson’ team of fools. After landing a spot on People Magazine’s sexiest alive, he has not shown up on Details list of the most powerful men in the world.

God help us all, this is what happens when AC/DC fans take over important positions.

The meticulous former Goldman Sachs banker didn’t even enter the world of high finance until 2002, having spent most of his twenties as an aerospace engineer, but he has clearly impressed the right people. Former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson brought Kashkari with him when he became treasury secretary in 2006, and has kept him at his side throughout the crisis. Now Kashkari, who once helped to build a solar-powered car that traveled from Indianapolis to Colorado Springs, gets to decide which U.S. firms receive government life support and which do not, at least until the new administration takes over. To a rocket scientist, this might sound far-fetched. But to a big AC/DC fan like Kashkari, it makes perfect sense: It’s called trying to get us back in the black.

Back in Black? Sure, by 2017 maybe.

Of course, Kashari might eventually end up on Details list of Power Tools but will have to bump Joe the Plumber off the list in order to secure a slot.

Of course, Kashkari is a bore, compared to the pregnant man.

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