Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is scheduled to appear today before the House Financial Services Committee to address President Obama's proposed consu...
bloomberg.com | Craig Torres and Robert Schmidt | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business
Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve Board has rejected a request by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for a public review of the centra...
New York Times | Eric Lipton | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Generations ago, industrialists and financiers extracted fortunes from the copper and gold mines dug into the canyons near here. Now, their modern-day...
RJ Eskow | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
If unemployment figures are really "unacceptable," why is Larry Summers accepting the forecast -- and repeating it -- instead of telling us how the White House plans to change it?
AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged Tuesday the federal government had to take some "deeply offensive" steps to help the co...
Washington Post | Michael D. Shear | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
A top economic adviser to President Obama began a concerted White House effort on Friday to claim credit for the improving economy, declaring that the...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Never was the G-20 intended to be anything else than a technical forum meeting twice a year. It has no power, no administration, let alone any authority.
bloomberg.com | Alison Fitzgerald and Christine Harper | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
One year after the demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. paralyzed the financial system, “mega-banks,” as Fine’s group calls them, are as inte...
Washington Post | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, appearing in a town hall program that concluded moments ago on CNBC, said that "absolutely, absolutely," unemployment...
bloomberg.com | Bob Ivry, Christine Harper and Mark Pittman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The warning was ominous: "Massive global wealth destruction." That's what Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. executives predicted...
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
Wouldn't you have wanted to be at Treasury on Tuesday when Geithner read FDIC head Sheila Bair's Times op-ed, in which she continues to wage war against the Treasury's plan for a super-regulator?
Wall Street Journal | By DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday that government officials acted appropriately in their dealings with Goldman Sachs Group...
Jane Smiley | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
If we step up to the plate and support Obama now with both our money and our feet, what will we get in return? If the last six months are any indication, the answer is, "Nothing."
Wall Street Journal | By DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the Obama administration wouldn't allow Wall Street to return to such old habits as taking...
Reuters | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally requested that Congress raise the $12.1 trillion statutory debt limit on Friday, saying that it coul...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
This was a Katrina-like failing. A disaster was clearly building and defenses were weak. What were the Fed and Treasury doing in those key months between Bear and Lehman?
nytimes.com | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- In what has become a routine spectacle, financial regulators went to Congress this week and raised objections to major portions of Presi...
Liz Peek | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
Like a Cessna pilot deliberately flying into a tornado, President Obama is risking political life and limb to push through healthcare legislation that Americans do not like and do not want.
Reuters | Patrick Rucker and Kevin Drawbaugh | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. bank regulators will speak out on Tuesday against some key elements of the Obama administration's plan to reshape fina...
Dylan Loewe | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
When anyone anywhere speculates for any period of time about some far-off possible doom for Democrats, we collectively panic. But, fellow anxiety-driven friends, now is not the time to panic.
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's treasury secretary said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit, a...
Posted 08.30.2009 | Business
The Daily Show recently ran a hilarious segment on Tim Geithner's protracted attempts to sell his Larchmont home. Last we heard, Geithner's home was l...
William Bradley | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
There's no question that, in this fragmented media culture marked by an acute attention deficit disorder, Obama is the prime driver of news. But that doesn't mean he has to do it himself.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The United States and China on Tuesday pledged closer cooperation to deal with global hot spots such as Iran and the worst financia...
Posted 11.23.2009 | Business