Now that Barack Obama is making some gestures that seem p. serious towards Hillary Clinton becoming the next Secretary of State (which includes a lot of fun trips to Bosnia, no doubt!) the senator from New York is going to relinquish information her husband's closed-door financial activities.

Which is sort of amazing, because Bill Clinton's ties to investors like Ron Burkle and Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra have been shrouded in secrecy for years, meaning that if Hillary wants this spot, she might have to sell her husband down the river a tad.

Not to mention his international consultant agency will be nixed, and that $500 million Bill has already raised from his foundation might be the last he ever sees of that kind of money.

So what's it going to be, Bill? Your money, or your wife's power?

It was unclear whether the review extended beyond publicly available records or whether Mr. Clinton had opened his private records. But he has powerful incentive to do so. "For the first time in 16 years," one Democratic adviser said, "he has to cooperate with someone else since it has become clear she wants the job."

Chances are Bill is going to give up some, if not all of the info requested by Obama's teams, if only because not doing so would look even more suspicious. But maybe Obama knows (or guesses) more about the Clintons' financial history than he's letting on, and is hinting at the position as a gesture of goodwill, knowing that when the truth about this family's economic standing comes to light, there is no way Hillary will be allowed to take over for Condoleezza.