Timothy Geithner was, as predicted, picked for the Treasury Secretary.  The currently serves as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and is, surprise, surprise, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).  Here is his mini-bio:

After completing his studies, Geithner worked for Kissinger and Associates in Washington, D.C., for three years and then joined the International Affairs division of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1988. He was deputy assistant secretary for international monetary and financial policy (1995–1996), senior deputy assistant secretary for international affairs (1996-1997), assistant secretary for international affairs (1997–1998).

He was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (1998–2001) under Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.[3] Summers was his mentor,[6] but other sources call him a Rubin protégé.

In 2002 he left the Treasury to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in the International Economics department. At the International Monetary Fund he was director of the Policy Development and Review Department (2001-2003).

In October 2003, he was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.[10] His salary in 2007 was $398,200. Once at the New York Fed, he became Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee component. In 2006, he also became a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.

In March 2008, he arranged the rescue and sale of Bear Stearns.[6][12] As a Treasury official, he helped manage multiple international crisis of the 1990s[8] in Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand.

Lawrence Summers, the former Clintonista, was named as as head of the National Economic Council.  Larry was the guy run out of Harvard when he suggested that women are genetically inferior to men in math and science.  Are you surprised that Summers is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations?   You can read Summers bio here.  

Christina Romer has been tagged by Obama to head up his Council of Economic Advisers.  Christina's bio reads like this:

She is a former vice president of the American Economic Association, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship recipient, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a winner of the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Romer is co-director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee.[3]

In 2008, the economics department of Harvard University voted to offer her a tenure-track position, along with her husband David Romer, but Harvard President Drew Faust vetoed Christina's appointment (but not David's). David refused to accept the solo offer.

I have not found any proof that Romer is on the CFR, but in an October 3rd,  paper discussing Barack Obama's potential team put out by the CFR, she was mentioned as a good pick by them.  (read the paper here)  If she is not an "invitation only member" by the time Obama is sworn in I will eat my words publicly.

Melody Barnes, is another Center for American Progress (CAP) lefty.  Melody Barnes is Co-chair of the Agency Review Working Group for the Obama-Biden Transition Project. She most recently served as the Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to the Obama for America campaign. Prior to joining the campaign, Ms. Barnes served as the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress, Chief Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a Principal at The Raben Group, LLC. Her experience also includes an appointment as Director of Legislative Affairs to the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Barnes began her career as an attorney with Shearman & Sterling.

Again, since the current membership list are confidential and not on the CFR website (www.cfr.org) there is no way of knowing if Ms. Barnes is a member, but as with Romer... if she is not by inauguration day I will be surprised.

This puts our economy once again in the hands of private Council on Foreign Relations members.  Is the CFR some kind of terrible conspiracy group that is out to overthrow the USA? No, I am not trying to say that.  What I am saying is that they represent the power elite, not only in America but globally.  Their primary loyalty is to themselves.  No one pays attention to all little clubs from which our leaders are selected from.  There is the Bilderberger Group, CFR and Trilateral Commission clubs that seem to be the seed bed where our leaders germinate before being rolled out for us to vote over.  Check out the extreme power they wield and their "New World Order" ideas and values that these groups champion.

Look at the past members of the CFR.  It is the banking, politics and media elite of the world.  This is the same polluted pool of power management ideas that has brought us all the very worst side of American potential.  Here is the most complete list of all the past and present members I could locate for your reading pleasure.

I think you will be surprised how many of our leaders all come from the same fraternities, and Obama pulling up a heavy bucket from that same well represents more of the same, not "change you can believe in".

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