Time magazine had several contenders for its annual Person of the Year issue, including Timothy Geithner, Stanley McChrystal, Usain Bolt and, of cours...
Our leaders have chosen to shift the burdens onto the U.S. public and refuse to regulate Wall Street. It's almost as if Wall Street owns Washington.
Enjoy the health care debate? Wait until the Senate takes on the big banks. It already looks like déjà vu all over again.
Someone please tell Mr. Geithner there is no longer any need to focus TARP funds on the major Wall Street players. They already have got theirs and are walking -- nay, running -- away from the recession.
In each of the three most important areas of policy with which he has dealt, Obama speaks in the voice of the little people's champion, but his actions cater fully to the demands of the most powerful economic interests.
The buccaneers of the financial community remain free to restore the disaster from which they were rescued with taxpayers' money.
Bo views Geithner as a martyr subjected to unfounded, ungrateful attacks for his actions that prevented the Second Great Depression. Bo doesn't have much use for Americans that are upset with finance industry.
Congress and the Administration should call for a steep windfall tax on all Wall Street profits and bonuses, directly tying the tax to the unemployment rate.
Obama's Office of Management and Budget transition team leader Bo Cutter has presented the best possible defense of Treasury Secretary Geithner.
Neither Lincoln nor FDR resolved the enormous challenges that faced the United States during their first months or even years of their administrations, yet they went on to become two of our greatest Presidents.
Dear Mr. Geithner, I struggle to understand why you ignore my letters and calls? I appreciate the depth and breadth of issues you face, decisio...
Shaming Wall Street won't work. Only political muscle and courage will. Congress and the Obama administration should give homeowners the right to go to a bankruptcy judge and have their mortgages modified.
The popular narrative -- that Tim Geithner needlessly favored the interests of banks over those of taxpayers -- does not withstand close scrutiny.
Why is Summers once again running the show with Geithner when both have made careers of exhibiting total contempt for the public interest? Because there's no accountability for the high rollers of finance.
Did Goldman Sachs dissemble and equivocate in its responses to the New York Times?
Operating a business on Main Street is a lot different than lecturing at the Harvard Economic Club. The team Obama surrounded himself with has spent way more time in a faculty lounge than in the corner barber shop.
Obama promoted the architects of the financial disaster and demands that we hail them as heroes because they, and Wall Street, only wrecked the economy -- they haven't (yet) utterly destroyed it.
For the first time, Obama's approval ratings are below 50 percent and calls for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's resignation are growing louder.
Did Goldman and the other banks know for certain that the bankruptcy of AIG was no longer a risk for them? That the Fed and Treasury were now irrevocably committed to saving AIG?
Geithner's problem is not that he is by nature a corrupt man. It's that he is steeped in the Wall Street way of doing business, which itself is riddled with fraud -- and billions of taxpayer dollars are at stake.
The fatal hallmark of this president's financial policy is that it is being designed by the very people who created the mess that enriched them while impoverishing the nation, and they now want more of the same.
