Articles related to "Timothy Geithner"

By naming Timothy F. Geithner as Treasury Secretary, Obama signals a preference for can-do, hands-on approaches. This would be a marked change from the Bush ideologues.

Geithner condemned AIG for its payout of $165 million in retention bonuses after accepting $70 billion in aid. It was a stain on a long and amicable relationship.

The AIG bonus fiasco cast a critical eye on Geithner. The benefactors of the bailouts he administered at the New York Federal Reserve Bank deserve equal scrutiny.

Timothy Geithner has been busy buying Treasuries these days, so to have the federal fund target rate almost at 0. So we know what he's doing now, but where has he been?

The bestselling book, BLINK, explores how people constantly make snap judgments about others they meet. Some are instantly mistrusted while others are fast friends.

Barack Obama faces a task of such magnitude that it surpasses any other faced by a President taking office. The question is whether Barack Obama is equal to the task.

Obama must choose an experienced economic advisor to help lead the U.S. out of financial crisis. The list of such candidates is short, but strong.

Since February, more than one million Americans have refinanced their home mortgages and more help is on the way, two Obama administration cabinet members said May 14.

As America struggles with its potentially worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, there is a danger that the Presidential transition can make it worse.

The massive Social Security program, created in 1937, helps keep elderly people above the poverty line, according to the SSA. Is it doomed for bankruptcy, or will it last

Is it a slap in the face of the Hero on the Hudson, when Congress and the Obama administration argue in favor of maintaining contracts for disgraced AIG superiors?

A business cycle is much like the weather. It can be a brief squally interlude, followed by sunshine; or, it can be a long winter storm, followed by cold gradual thaw.