As you may or may not have noticed, things have really been looking up at Citi. The bank beat Goldman at something, it got the government’s ball-gag removed from its mouth and today comes the news it was able to land a big hire in academic rainmaker, Peter Orszag, whose job description is “youngest member of Citi’s Senior Strategic Advisory group, a counsel of Wall Street wise men that its bankers can call on to parachute in with advice on complex deals.” And that’s not all. Continue reading »