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The New York Times did the country (and itself) a disservice Sunday when it printed all 5,000 words of Devin Leonard's piece on William Gross.
The New York Times did the country (and itself) a disservice Sunday when it printed all 5,000 words of Devin Leonard's piece on William Gross.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business
The latest stock market bubble has undermined the urgent push for reform, which seems to have given way in Washington to a push to move on to other things and leave that little financial kerfuffle behind us. It puts a whole other spin on the audacity of hope. READ MORE Mission Shrink: We've Gone From Saving Wall Street in Order to Save Main Street to Just Saving Wall Street The problem continues to be the administration's habit of conflating the health of the Wall Street economy with the health of the real economy -- when, in fact, the two economies have become decoupled. READ MORE WATCH: Arianna Discusses Events in Iran, Obama's Agenda on Larry King Live WATCH: Arianna Discusses America's Response to Iran on The Situation Room
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Finance officials from the world's top economic powers pledged Friday to move swiftly on efforts to lift nations out of the worst r...
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.11.2009 | Business
So far, I've laid the Obama administration's decision to keep propping up failed banks at Tim Geithner's feet. Obama, meanwhile, has so far avoided blame. I wonder how long that will last.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
Two weeks after being introduced, Timothy Geithner's bank rescue plan is facing a new round of withering criticism from economists who say the proposa...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
Discussing the financial crisis with Obama's economic team is like beaming back to the 2nd century and discussing astronomy with Ptolemy. Just as Ptolemy was convinced we live in a geocentric universe, Obama's senior economic team is convinced we live in a bank-centric universe. It's an obsolete cosmology. READ MORE The Debate Over Online News: It's the Consumer, Stupid For me, the key question is whether those of us working in the media embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists. READ MORE Watch: Arianna Debates New Media with AP CEO Tom Curley on Charlie Rose Watch: Arianna Joins David Frum, George Will, Richard Haas, Martha Raddatz on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
The Treasury Department announced Monday that it's extending the deadline for investment firms to apply to participate in the Geithner Plan -- the Pub...
Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business
Geithner and Summers tell us that their plan is the only option, but without a word of further explanation as to why. Let them explain to America why the other proposals are not being pursued.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics
I fear that these columns have been too polite. What we have is something perilously close to a dictatorship of the Fed and the Treasury, acting in the interests of Wall Street.
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business
Like the president he serves, Geithner is a pragmatist, a progressive and a Democrat, and seems willing, if market strategies fail (as they will), to abandon them in favor of whatever works.
Slate Magazine | Daniel Gross | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
Tim Geithner's plan to remove toxic assets from the books of crippled financial institutions is receiving mixed reviews. Nobel Prize-winning economist...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 04.25.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's aggressive plan for strict scrutiny of hedge funds and other freewheeling investors, part of the biggest...
New York Daily News | Matthew Richardson and Nouriel Roubini | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business
For the economy to be viable, the financial system must be healthy. For this to occur, the system needs to be cleansed of its poorly performing loans ...
Henry Blodget | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business
The big problem with Tim Geithner's plan to fix the banks is the same as it ever was: The gap between what banks say their assets are worth and what the market says they are worth.
Betsy Perry | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
While I'm all for coming clean and getting the dirt on AIG and Goldman Sachs, the behavior of the committee members is all about listening to themselves talk, grandstanding and "gotcha" moments.
Alan Schram | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business
The very premise behind Geithner's plan is flawed. We insist on saving the banks, and refuse to admit most of them are impaired beyond hope.
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business
Geithner and the SEC must take direct aim at the root cause of our ailments. That means fixing the credit-rating agency problem now.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
It remains astonishing that a variety of pundits and lawmakers continue to underestimate Obama. Will Obama rescue the economy? Yes, he can. But not if the Democrats try to stop him first.
Henry Blodget | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business
Geithner views the crisis the same way Wall Street does -- as a temporary liquidity problem -- and his plans to fix it are designed with the best interests of Wall Street in mind.
Wall Street Journal | TIMOTHY GEITHNER | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business
The American economy and much of the world now face extraordinary challenges, and confronting these challenges will continue to require extraordinary ...
Bloomberg | Chris Antsey | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business
White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers said that investors in the Public-Private Investment Program won't be subject to the c...
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration aimed squarely at the crisis clogging the nation's credit system Monday with a plan to take over up to $1 ...
Brad DeLong | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics
Q: What is the Geithner Plan? A: The Geithner Plan is a trillion-dollar operation by which the U.S. acts as the world's largest hedge fund investor, ...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics
It would be a bit disturbing if a president who has said he wants to hear the widest range of opinions on important issues would want to dismiss those who write blog posts.
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke with PBS' Jim Lehrer on Wednesday evening about the Obama administration's economic plans. Among the highli...
Erica Payne | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media