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The Ponzi scheme was based on the collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) in which the bankers traded and which AIG had insured with the credit default swaps (CDSs) that they sold but failed to back with adequate funding. Full Article at Truth Dig
Tim Duy says -- correctly -- "that a significant portion of policymakers are simply clueless": Ahead of Black Friday, by Tim Duy: We are embarking once again into that time of the year when reporters around the world become entranced and... Full Article at Economist's View
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner hosts a small business forum in the Cash Room at the Treasury Department November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC. View Photo »
Congressman, again it's just a basic fact, a year ago, a year ago, this economy was falling at the rate of 6 percent a year. We were losing between half a million and three quarters of a million jobs a month and that process was accelerating, not slowing, until the president of the United States came an...
I write this Thanksgiving column with three potentially inharmonious thoughts in mind. The first is that our beloved country is indisputably in a mess. Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Just got this updated press pool report about the White House State Dinner tonight....and, as always, I figure you like to read this since I do: At 8:40 p.m. pool was taken to The Tent, constructed on a now-muddy South Lawn, for the toasts. Full Article at FOX News
By the time President Obama landed back on American soil last Thursday, politicians on Capitol Hill were beginning to show the effects of a week without adult supervision. Full Article at Slate
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: (L-R) Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner, Gentle Parking's William Ortiz-Cartagena and SHEEX Co-Founder Susan Walvisu listen to Andy Cabral (C) of Dunkin Donuts speak during a small... View Photo »
You know, the times get tough, so what happens? Somebody has to point a finger ... Tim Geithner isn't responsible for the entirety of what's out there today, and it's nonsense to think that he is. It really makes me very angry, because we've got to find somebody to blame.
Ezra Klein: Noam Scheiber defends Timothy Geithner against those demanding his resignation. Scheiber is right on the merits, I think, but the politics matter. Full Article at Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
If Timothy Geithner were a Broadway show, the producers would shut it down. Treasury secretaries get attacked all the time and have to take it with aplomb. It's in the job description. Full Article at The Orange County Register
Timothy F. Geithner (born August 18, 1961) is the 9th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In that role he also serves as Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Full Article
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner hosts a small business forum in the Cash Room at the Treasury Department November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: (L-R) Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner, Gentle Parking's William Ortiz-Cartagena and SHEEX Co-Founder Susan Walvisu listen to Andy Cabral (C) of Dunkin Donuts speak during a small businss financing forum at the Tre...
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: (L-R) Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner and SHEEX Co-Founder Susan Walvisu (R) listen to Andy Cabral of Dunkin Donuts speak during a small businss financing forum at the Treasury Department November 18, 2009 in Wash...
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner checks his watch in between panels during a small business financing forum at the Treasury Department November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner (R) talks with Small Business Administrator Karen Mills during a small business forum at the Treasury Department November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner hosts a small business forum at the Treasury Department November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (R) meets with his Singaporean counterpart Tharman Shanmugaratnam as they meet on the sideline of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings being held in Singapore on November 12, 2009.
View Photo »US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (R) shakes hands with his Singaporean counterpart Tharman Shanmugaratnam as they meet on the sideline of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings being held in Singapore on November 12, 2009.
View Photo »US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (R) introduces his delegation members to his Singaporean counterpart Tharman Shanmugaratnam as they meet on the sideline of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings being held in Singapore on November 12, 2009.
View Photo »US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (R) shakes hands with his Singaporean counterpart Tharman Shanmugaratnam as they meet on the sideline of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings being held in Singapore on November 12, 2009.
View Photo »US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (R) talks with his Singaporean counterpart Tharman Shanmugaratnam as they meet on the sideline of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings being held in Singapore on November 12, 2009.
View Photo »ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 07: G20 finance ministers and bank govenors gather for the family photograph on November 7, 2009 in St Andrews, Scotland.
View Photo »ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 07: G20 finance ministers and bank govenors gather for the family photograph on November 7, 2009 in St Andrews, Scotland.
View Photo »CHICAGO - OCTOBER 30: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (L) chats with Bill Leavy during a tour of the Greater West Town Community Development Project October 30, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
View Photo »CHICAGO - OCTOBER 30: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (C) and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley tour the Greater West Town Community Development Project October 30, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
View Photo »CHICAGO - OCTOBER 30: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner chats with Lorine Baker (R) during a tour of the Greater West Town Community Development Project October 30, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
View Photo »CHICAGO - OCTOBER 30: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner speaks following a tours the Greater West Town Community Development Project October 29, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
View Photo »CHICAGO - OCTOBER 30: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (R) stands next to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley as they wait to speak following a tour the Greater West Town Community Development Project October 30, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
View Photo »CHICAGO - OCTOBER 30: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner speaks following a tour the Greater West Town Community Development Project October 30, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
View Photo »CHICAGO - OCTOBER 30: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (C) tours the Greater West Town Community Development Project October 29, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
View Photo »CHICAGO - OCTOBER 30: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (C) chats with Chicago Alderman Walter Burnett (L), U.S. Congressman Danny Davis (2nd from right) and U. S. Senator Roland Burris (R) during a tour of the Greater West Town Community Development Project October 30, 2009 in Chicago,...
View Photo »CHICAGO - OCTOBER 30: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner speaks following a tour the Greater West Town Community Development Project October 30, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 29: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner arrives for a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 29, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 29: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner speaks during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 29, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 29: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner (R) speaks with a congressman before a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 29, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: (L-R) Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner, Gentle Parking's William Ortiz-Cartagena and SHEEX Co-Founder Susan Walvisu listen to Andy Cabral (C) of Dunkin Donuts speak during a small businss financing forum at the Tre...
View Photo »Congressman, again it's just a basic fact, a year ago, a year ago, this economy was falling at the rate of 6 percent a year. We were losing between half a million and three quarters of a million jobs a month and that process was accelerating, not slowing, until the president of the United States came an...
You know, the times get tough, so what happens? Somebody has to point a finger ... Tim Geithner isn't responsible for the entirety of what's out there today, and it's nonsense to think that he is. It really makes me very angry, because we've got to find somebody to blame.
China...has committed to move. They understand they need to do it. I think they want to do it. And I am actually quite confident that they will do it
Rep. Peter DeFazio, one of the most outspoken Democratic critics of the White House economic team, said he plans to press the 27-member Congressional Populist Caucus to back his call for their ouster ... The Oregon Democrat created a stir on Capitol Hill after an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday during whi...
The U.S. and the G-20: Remaking the International Economic Architecture â on Capitol Hill in Washington November 17, 2009. (REUTERS / Kevin Lamarque) Unfortunately, the regulatory regime that failed so terribly leading up to the financial crisis is precisely the regulatory regime we have today
Tim Geithner was the Treasury line officer who wrote the IMF [International Monetary Fund] program for Indonesia in 1997-98, which was to apply current account solutions to a capital account crisis.
If you look at any measure of confidence in the financial system, it is substantially higher today than when the president of the United States took office
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Tuesday that efforts to strengthen the global financial system to prevent another deep crisis will falter if the United States drops the ball on overhauling regulation of its own banking system. We need to move on the reform agenda when the memory of ...
We have to be able to set the international agenda on reforms. ... We’ll have no credibility if we can’t deliver in the United States.
is a deeply troubling account of Secretary Geithner’s failed management of the AIG bailout ... The cozy relationships between the bailed-out financial companies and powerful politicians like Tim Geithner and Chris Dodd are exactly why Americans have lost trust in Washington, D.C., and why we need new le...
China has to move to take steps away from excessive reliance on exports and toward domestic consumption-led growth
the plan - coordinated by the then-head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) Timothy F. Geithner, who now serves as Treasury Secretary - allowed too much leverage to AIG counterparties, while significantly handcuffing the Federal Reserve's negotiating power, according to an audit released Tue...
After the experiences of the Great Depression and World War II, the United States led in the creation of the international financial system that anchored prosperity and stability for more than 60 years
US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner clearly said that he wants a strong dollar, and from China there are signals that indicate a loosening of the yuan from the dollar
We want to see more open markets in China, a more level playing field for U.S. companies that compete in China and compete with China around the world. And it's very important we see financial reforms, broader reforms to their exchange rate system over time that will help reinforce this process towards ...
As Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner recently put it, 'No financial system can operate efficiently if financial institutions and investors assume that government will protect them from the consequences of failure,'
Moving from a global economy based on U.S. demand to one based on global demand is critical to our domestic efforts to reduce unemployment and increase the wages of middle-class Americans
The timing was awkward. The government shut down $4.7 billion-asset Park National on the same day that its community development arm, Park National Bank Initiatives, received $50 million from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at a ceremony in Chicago. That money is intended to stimulate investment in ...
Through the Financial Fraud Task Force, we are making clear that the Obama administration is going to act aggressively and proactively in a coordinated effort to combat financial fraud
A lot of people have looked at AIG as a Paulson bailout ... In fact, it was a Tim Geithner bailout. Hank was in Washington and had very little to do with it. It was Tim’s deal. The terms of the deal are Tim’s. He was the man at the table. He went to Ben to get approval. But this was a Tim Geithner produ...
We are seeing growth resume in the United States [as well] … Given the very important role of the U.S. in the global economy [and] the important role the dollar plays in the system, … we are going to continue to be a voice for reform and would be a strong partner for countries in this region.
A lot of people have looked at AIG as a Paulson bailout ... In fact, it was a Tim Geithner bailout. Hank was in Washington and had very little to do with it. It was Tim’s deal. The terms of the deal are Tim’s. He was the man at the table. He went to Ben to get approval. But this was a Tim Geithner produ...
It’s very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar
Tim Geithner had all the negotiating power in the world; he didn't use it. Tim Geithner continues to be the voice of Wall Street, not Main Street
The challenge is growth. First growth, but make sure we have business confidence restored, investments expanding again, unemployment coming down, financial sector definitively repaired — that's our basic challenge
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