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...
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
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.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Julie Satow | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
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...
nytimes.com | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
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...
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke to reporters today about the much-rumored restrictions on Wall Street compensation. Geithner said: "We'd lik...
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business
LONDON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is set to unveil his much-anticipated guidelines on investment banking pay this week. But he may be too ...
Henry Blodget | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
The government is edging closer to capping Wall Street pay -- and not just at firms that were bailed out with taxpayer money.
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
Earlier this week, it was reported that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's is selling his home in Larchmont, New York. The real estate website...
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appeared on CNBC this morning and discussed the GM bankruptcy, economic relations with China, and the ballooning F...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 07.01.2009 | Business
BEIJING — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. financial system is in much better shape these days and there is more stability...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 06.30.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Timothy Geithner's first trip to China as treasury secretary comes at a vulnerable time for the Obama administration. Mired in a b...
CNN | David Ellis | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business
Small banks facing severe loan losses and in need of capital continue to operate, indicating a reluctance on behalf of regulators to shut them down....
Washington Post | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admits private investors are worried about investing in new government-backed commercial mortgage securities and d...
Bloomberg | Matthew Leising | Posted 06.24.2009 | Business
The U.S. Treasury's plan to regulate the over-the-counter derivatives market outlined by Secretary Timothy Geithner on May 13 contains recommendations...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that he has "no plans to request additional funding" for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief P...
Carlos Watson | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business
There's good news and bad news: your chances of being employed just went up, but the paycheck you'll start earning could be worth less.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Declaring that the financial system was "starting to heal," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that major banks had...
Iris Martin | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
We know you thrive on breaking news and our story is being suppressed, by evil banksters and their cronies, who would rather go bankrupt than confess.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney and Ryan Grim | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Now that some bailout recipients have begun sending checks back to the Treasury Department, the question has become: Whose money is that? Deficit haw...
Fortune | William D. Cohan, Contributor | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business
NEW YORK -- Imagine if you were not really in the market for a house but the government came along and said that it would finance 94% of a home's purc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday that the government has no plans to cap compensation on Wall Street. "I don't think our government...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 06.17.2009 | Business
The JFK Presidential Library gives a Profile in Courage Award to public officials who took a stand that took a lot of integrity and nerve.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
We are told that poor countries will suffer if the IMF does not get a $108 billion appropriation from Congress immediately. But this is nonsense.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced Wednesday morning that the Treasury Department plans to give small banks access to bailout funds returne...
Wall Street Journal | TOM BARKLEY | Posted 07.14.2009 | Business