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Behind The Scenes With Obama's Cabinet (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slideshow, Kathleen Sebelius, Hilda Solis, Tim Geithner, Barack Obama's Cabinet, Arne Duncan, Ken Salazar, Nancy Sutley, Obama's Cabinet, Ray Lahood, Politics News

Cabinet members: they're more than just bureaucratic figureheads. They will also paint your house, fertilize your lawn and serve you lunch, as reveale...

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Confronting the Greedy

Mike Lux | Posted 06.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Larry Summers, Financial Bailout, 2009 Obama Administration, Tim Geithner, Business News

I want Obama to succeed, but it's not going to happen unless he (a) wrenches the control of the economy away from the greedy, and (b) confronts the greedy directly.

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Geithner Grows Up: WATCH The Treasury Sec's Evolution (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

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Witness the new and improved Timothy Geithner! As DealBreaker put it earlier today, the Treasury Secretary has arrived. He's been everywhere lately, i...

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The Hedgehog and the Fox

Peter Schwartz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Tim Geithner, President Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Obama, Timothy Geithner, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Financial Regulation, Business News

British political philosopher Isaiah Berlin immortalized the distinction in politics and literature between the hedgehog and the fox. The hedgehog kno...

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Mission Shrink: We've Gone From Saving Wall Street in Order to Save Main Street to Just Saving Wall Street

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Housing Market, Unemployment, Tim Geithner, Economy, Economic Recovery, Joe Biden, Recession, Barack Obama, Foreclosure News, Business News

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.

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Geithner: "I'm Not Chairman -- Yet" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Bob Corker, Timothy Geithner, Senate Banking Committee, Chris Dodd, Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the Senate on Thursday that he isn't "Mr. Chairman -- yet." Geither was testifying before the Senate Banking...

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Geithner Congressional Testimony: Financial Overhaul 'Essential' (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday defended the US administration's vast regulatory overhaul plan as "essential" in averting or containin...

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The Babble Over Regulatory Reform, Cont'd

Robert Teitelman | Posted 06.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Politics, Wall Street, Obama Policies, Economic Policy, Tim Geithner, Regulation, Larry Summers, Monetary Policy, Robert Teitelman, Business, Glass-Steagall, Paul Volcker, Obama Administration, Business News

Nobody just announces anything anymore. Before anyone in Washington can get lunch, it has to be leaked, briefed, previewed in speeches, summarized in ...

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Geithner Says Recovery Could Be Slow

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business

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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner spoke to CNNMoney earlier this week, and he didn't mince words about some of the root causes of the financial crisis, ...

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Durbin Sold Stocks, Funds Just As Market Plunged

bloomberg.com | James Rowley | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Richard Durbin, Tim Geithner, Dick Durbin, Warren Buffett, Henry Paulson, Business News

June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares as U.S. stock markets ...

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Geithner And Summers Make Case For Regulatory Reform In Op-Ed

AP | JIM KUHNHENN and MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Aiming for greater limits and more clarity in the nation's financial system, the Obama administration on Monday proposed adding mus...

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Obama To Roll Out Vast Overhaul Of System That Governs Wall Street, Banks

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Barack Obama, Bank Reform, Economy, Bank Crisis, Wall Street Reform, President Obama, Financial Crisis, Financial Crisis Reform, Tim Geithner, Wall Street, Ben Bernanke, Business News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is ready to roll out an overhaul of the intricate rules and systems that govern America's troubled financial...

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Geithner: Too Soon To Halt Global Stimulus

Wall Street Journal | TOM BARKLEY | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Global Stimulus, Stimulus, Tim Geithner, Business News

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned Saturday that it's too early to pull back on global efforts to boost growth, but that governments shou...

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Wall Street Reform: Regulators and Lawmakers Prepare for Turf War

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Congressional Oversight, Regulatory Reform, Systemic Risk Regulator, Wall Street Regulation, Tim Geithner, Financial Regulation, Sec, Business News

Rather than work together to improve the system, regulatory reform could become a classic political turf war. The problem is that once someone has the ball, he's reluctant to give it up.

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Paying The Price Of Fragmented Regulation

Robert Teitelman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business

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In the run-up to testimony by Bank of America chief Ken Lewis on the Merrill Lynch & Co. affair, e-mails are suddenly leaking from the Beltway colander, though their ultimate source, strangely enough, is that opaque wonderland, the Federal Reserve.

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The FDIC To Start Dumping Toxic Assets, Banks Could Feel The Pain

HuffingtonPost.com | Julie Satow | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Toxic Assets, Geithner, Fdic, Sheila Bair, Bank Bailouts, Tim Geithner, Ppip, Business News

Contrary to popular belief, the Public-Private Investment Program, a centerpiece of the government's strategy to rescue the nation's banks, is not dea...

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Executive Pay: Treasury to Set Top Compensation At 7 Companies

nytimes.com | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Wall Street Bailout, Chrysler, Bank of America, Gm, Aig, Gmac, Bailout, Tim Geithner, CEO Compensation, Chrysler Financial, Wall Street Pay, Executive Compensation, Compensation-Rules, Pay Restrictions, Citigroup, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's sweeping new proposal to restrict executive pay is likely to be a humbling exercise for seven of the nation's...

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Geithner Talks Compensation Rules (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 06.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Compensation, Compensation Rules, Wall Street Pay Caps, Tim Geithner, Compensation Comitteees, Wall Street Pay, Business News

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke to reporters today about the much-rumored restrictions on Wall Street compensation. Geithner said: "We'd lik...

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Citigroup Bonuses: Bank Paying Millions To Attract Talent

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 06.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Citigroup, Executive Compensaton, Bailout, Wall Street Pay, Tim Geithner, Banking Crisis, Stefanos Bitzakidis, Tarp, Rachel Lord, Business News

LONDON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is set to unveil his much-anticipated guidelines on investment banking pay this week. But he may be too ...

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Wall Street Pay Caps Are a Terrible Idea

Henry Blodget | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street, Tim Geithner, Barack Obama, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News

The government is edging closer to capping Wall Street pay -- and not just at firms that were bailed out with taxpayer money.

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Pictures Of Geithner's Home In Larchmont, New York

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business

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Earlier this week, it was reported that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's is selling his home in Larchmont, New York. The real estate website...

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Geithner Talks China, Recession, Federal Deficit (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 06.02.2009 | Business

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appeared on CNBC this morning and discussed the GM bankruptcy, economic relations with China, and the ballooning F...

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The Departure Lounge

Scott Malcomson | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Renminbi, Tim Geithner, Nick Denton, Brad Setser, Josh Marshall, Cancer, Evan Williams, China, Scott Rosenberg, World News

One of the HuffPo's few guidelines for blogging is: No vague headlines. Nothing cute, and nothing "literary," along the lines of, e.g., The Narrow Ro...

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