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New manager of $700 rescue started in engineering before turn to finance "Let's also not oversell what I'm doing. You know, Secretary (Henry) Paulson is the guy making the ultimate decisions on where we're going to be deploying this and in what form," says Neel Kashkari. WASHINGTON - In a way, Neel Kashkari's job has always been to keep it together. Today he's known as the 35-year-old whiz kid appointed czar of the Treasury Department's $700 billion financial bailout. But in a past life, he was a young engineer working on the James Webb Space Telescope, planned as the even-more-intricate successor to the iconic Hubble. Even then, Kashkari's job was about maintaining stability and confidence. His work for NASA contractor TRW Inc. — helping create a key latch — was meant to keep the telescope from shaking apart in the... [read full story]
