Timothy F. Geithner
US Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner (L), Singapore's Minister of Financeand IMFC Chairman Tharman Shanmugaratnam (2L), IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (2R), Hubert Ingraham, Prime Ministerr of the Bahamas and Chairman of the World Bank/IMF Group, wait for a group photo with International Monetary Fund governors at the annual International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings on September 24, 2011 in Washington, DC.
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I didn’t expect to return to the government again after 1995, but when Tim Geithner asked me to serve in the midst of the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression in December 2008, I couldn’t say no ... Then I couldn’t say no when President Obama asked me to be his Chief Economist.
Not ObamaCare. Not without having (Health and Human Services) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in attendance, you wouldn’t ... About Treasury issues? Deficit reduction? Not without Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
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Obama raises possibility of change at the Fed
woman to head the Fed or any other major central bank. Other possible candidates include two former Obama advisers, Timothy F. Geithner and Lawrence Summers, and Roger Ferguson, former Fed vice chairman. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama suggested that 5:53 PM from Contra Costa Times Read more »
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Larry Fink Thinks that Tim Geithner Will Be the Next Fed Chairman
CEO] Larry Fink is saying it could be [former Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner. He’s not a bad choice, he ran the Treasury Department and BlackRock is very close to the Treasury Department. Fink is telling friends on the street not to rule out Geithner.” 4:20 PM from Value Walk Read more »
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Steve Phillips: Personal diplomacy for dream ties
high-level officials. These talks, led on the US side by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner, sought to resolve contentious issues through quiet negotiations. This approach failed because of fundamental conflicts of from GulfToday.ae Read more »
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Playing with Armageddon: The Politics of the Debt Ceiling
According to Woodward, Geithner felt that too many members of Congress do not fear a crisis, they want one. On the one hand, Geithner knew from his contacts on Wall Street that Boehner himself was not willing to go that far. As the former New York Fed president from OMB Watch Read more »
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Feingold in 2016?
and trying to control money in politics. He voted with Republicans in favor of some pro-gun measures and against Tim Geithner for Treasury Secretary. 3. He is a true liberal, in the tradition of prairie progressives. He has favored environmental protection, from The Washington Post Read more »
