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Pelosi Tells Geithner: Pecora Commission Planned For Next Week

The Page | Mark Halperin | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

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The Page has some details on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plans to form an investigative panel on the financial crisis in the style of the Pecora Commission...

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Bank Bailout Fund: $328 Billion Still Remains

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — The government has tens of billions of dollars left in the eye-popping $700 billion bank bailout fund created last fall, prompting ...

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Treasury Announces List Of PPIP Fund Managers

AP | Martin Crutsinger and Daniel Wagner | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Treasury Department on Wednesday selected nine large investment managers to operate funds for a long-awaited program to buy tox...

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Behind The Scenes With Obama's Cabinet (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

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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 07.24.2009 | Business

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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 07.20.2009 | 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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Mission Shrink: We've Gone From Saving Wall Street in Order to Save Main Street to Just Saving Wall Street

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

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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 07.19.2009 | Business

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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 07.19.2009 | 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 07.17.2009 | 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 07.16.2009 | 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 07.16.2009 | Business

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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 07.16.2009 | 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 07.15.2009 | Business

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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 07.14.2009 | Business

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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 07.13.2009 | Business

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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 07.12.2009 | 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 07.12.2009 | Business

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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 07.12.2009 | Business

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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 07.11.2009 | Business

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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 07.10.2009 | Business

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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 07.09.2009 | Business

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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 07.06.2009 | 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 07.03.2009 | 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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