Entries tagged "Tim Geithner"

Text of Geithner's House testimony

ReadTreasury Secretary Tim Geithner's prepared statement before House Financial Services Committee on Thursday.

Bair plan would only stall taxpayer bailout

The media is calling the FDIC's latest plan to replenish its deposit fund a 'backward bailout,' but that's far from the truth.

Dodd plan a bid for re-election?

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., has broke with the White House over financial reform with a proposal to create an uber-regulator independent of the Federal Reserve.

Treasury winds down $200B bailout account

With Congress dragging it feet on raising the federal government's debt ceiling, Treasury opted to reduce the size of its 'Supplementary Account' from $200 billion to $15 billion.

Sheila Bair goes on the attack again

Wouldn't you want to be at Treasury Tuesday when Tim Geithner reads Sheila Bair's New York Times op-ed, which continues to wage war against the Treasury plan for a super-regulator?

David Wessel on the failure of Lehman Brothers

The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel's 'In Fed We Trust' is now on bookstore shelves, and The Deal's Robert Teitelman offers some preliminary thoughts as he reads the book.

Treasury taps Hellman & Friedman dealmaker

Jeffrey Goldstein, a managing director at private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC, was nominated by President Obama Wednesday to be Treasury under secretary for domestic finance.

Tim Geithner's conflict

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has plenty of conflicts for pundits to contemplate, but the thorniest may be choosing between his two mentors.

The underlying politics of regulatory reform

Washington ignoring the pleas of former Fed chief Paul Volcker is simply going through a charade of financial regulatory changes to satisfy the public.

The babble over regulatory reform, cont'd

Treasury's much-mooted financial regulatory reform proposals is the latest Obama policy to be leaked, briefed, previewed in speeches and summarized in op-eds.

Paying the price of fragmented regulation

The Fed e-mails leaked to the press ahead of Ken Lewis' Congressional testimony sheds some light on the financial regulatory turf wars.

More Treasury nominees on the move

Two nominees expected to play key roles in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's outreach to Congress received their confirmation hearings.

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