GKM

Hank Paulson: Smartest Man in the Room

No one can truly be this simple can they? Note carefully author: the Great Depression didn't happen over night - it took four years. The stats quoted are from the end of the GD not one year in. We've been in this thing for one year and things are just getting started.

As for the conclusion that Paulson is the smartest guy in the room, who knows. Look what the other smartest guys in the room did for America. If you are saying he is of that ilk, I would have to agree.