Possible Obama, McCain Treasury picks mulled

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Who would President Barack Obama or President John McCain choose as the next U.S. Treasury secretary?

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"You would have to think that Phil Gramm is on the list for McCain," said Greg Valliere, chief strategist at Stanford Washington Research Group. Gramm, a vice chairman for UBS Investment Bank and a former Texas senator, is a senior McCain campaign official.

Also high on McCain's list would be former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina, Valliere said.

For Obama, some in the financial community are intrigued by the possibility of New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner, a former official in Bill Clinton's administration.

"He's very popular on Wall Street. He understands the complexities of the markets and the credit crunch. He's got just a tremendous Rolodex," Valliere said.

Both Valliere and Marc Chandler, a currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman, said another potential candidate for Treasury secretary in an Obama administration would be Laura Tyson, a former top economic adviser to President Bill Clinton who is now teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. She has recently begun advising Obama......

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