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Geithner: US must not drop ball on financial fix

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 the crisis is still acute," Geithner said in testimony to the Senate...

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