Four words that would make Matt Taibbi throw up just a little? Treasury Secretary Jamie Dimon.

That’s right, appointing the JPMorgan Chase CEO as Timothy Geithner’s successor — an idea backed by Warren Buffett — is just about enough to make the Rolling Stone columnist freak, as evidenced by this tweet:









Matt Taibbi

But of course, he’s not the only one to disagree with Buffett’s insistence that Dimon would be “terrific” in the role. The HuffPost’s own Mark Gongloff writes:

Putting Dimon in charge of the Treasury Department would send a disturbing signal about President Obama’s level of interest in financial reform. People only suspected Tim Geithner was captured by the banks he regulated. With Dimon, we would be 100 percent sure.

Also on HuffPost:

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  • Trading Loss ‘Puts Egg On Our Face’

    Dimon said JPMorgan Chase’s unexpected $2 billion loss on credit trades in May “<a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/jpmorgan-chase-london-whale_n_1507662.html?ref=business” target=”_hplink”>puts egg on our face, and we deserve any criticism we get</a>.”

  • Regulation ‘The Nail In Our Coffin’

    In March 2011, Dimon expressed his fear over new regulations, warning that higher capital requirements would be “pretty much the nail in our coffin for big American banks,” according to the <a href=”http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3157bcbe-5b05-11e0-a290-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1IB5kVGLG” target=”_hplink”>Financial Times</a>.

  • Losing Liquidity

    Warning that limiting proprietary trading would also affect market making, <a href=”http://www.cnbc.com/id/45986077/Jamie_Dimon_Regulators_Undermining_Economic_Objectives” target=”_hplink”>Dimon was quoted by CNBC</a>, “The United States has…the most liquid [capital markets in the world]. If you lose liquidity because you lose market making, you cost investors money.”

  • ‘Little To Do With Financial Crisis’

    “Proprietary trading had very little to do with the financial crisis,” <a href=”http://www.gurufocus.com/news/159099/interview–jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-on-regulation-volcker-rule-some-of-the-global-regulations-are-unamerican)” target=”_hplink”>Dimon told FOX Business Network Senior Correspondent Charlie Gasparino</a> in January, adding that “you can’t even make markets for your clients” with the Volcker Rule.

  • Volcker ‘Doesn’t Understand’

    “Paul Volcker by his own admission has said he doesn’t understand capital markets,” <a href=”http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/what-volcker-rule-could-mean-for-jpmorgans-big-trades” target=”_hplink”>Dimon told FOX Business.</a> “He has proven that to me.”

  • Volcker Rule Too Narrow

    in February, Dimon asserted the Volcker Rule had been written too narrowly. “If you want to be trading, you have to have a lawyer and a psychiatrist sitting next to you determining what was your intent every time you did something,” he was quoted as saying in <a href=”http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1377-aIjS6U8zr2Z8-1PEFKF7I5P2SI88Q43D587IV8L” target=”_hplink”>Businessweek</a>.