Warm fuzzy movie starting co-creator of TARP program who escaped off grid.. Off-Grid News George Clooney's next Directing gig may be a based-on-a-true-story about a former Treasury Department official Neel Kashkari , who leaves Wall Street to live off the grid in Northern California. He moves into a cabin in Nevada County with his wife, living an outdoor life, and says things like "All this is bigger than $700 billion."
"The $700 Billion Man" in the Washington Post by Laura Blumenfeld about Kashkari, who went from the stress of literally running TARP Washington to a cabin in Nevada County's Grass Valley.
"I wasn't prepared for their hostility," Kashkari told the Post. By then he had disbursed more than $400 billion, invested in 540 banks, implemented a $50 billion foreclosure prevention plan. He also made People magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" issue.
See SlideShow of the "$700Billion Dollar Mans Retreat Here" and how is is now living in a dream environment for many of our readers.