Tim Geithner

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Bill Maher | March 13 2009 | Opening Monologue

MARCH 12 2010

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Jim Rogers Says Geithner Caused Crisis; Must Let Banks Fail

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Paul Krugman: “On the Edge”

February 6, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist THE NEW YORK TIMES On the Edge By PAUL KRUGMAN A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to economic recovery. Over the last two weeks, what should have been a deadly serious debate about how to save an economy in desperate straits turned, instead, into hackneyed political theater, with Republicans […]

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Stiglitz Calls Bad Bank Idea “Cash For Trash”

BLOOMBERG Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said any decision by President Barack Obama to establish a so-called bad bank to rid financial companies of toxic assets risks swelling the national debt. Obama’s administration is moving closer to buying the illiquid assets currently clogging bank’s balance sheets and preventing them from boosting lending, […]