Geithner Banks

Front page headline of today's Wall Street Journal, "Geithner Banks on Private Cash."

When I first read that, I saw the word "banks" as a noun, and Geithner as an adjective. I tried to makle sense out of that: what kind of bank is a Geithner bank, anyway?

It took me a few seconds to mentally transform "banks" into a verb and read the headline as a sentence in which the Treasury Secretary's name is the subject.

Brad DeLong explains in Seeking Alpha that the gist of the plan is to make the US Treasury the world's biggest hedge fund investor.

As the plan unfolds we might have plenty of opportunity to discover what kind of institution might deserve the name "a Geithner Bank"!