Geithner under fire
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Despite recent calls for him to resign coming from both the right and the left, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner isn't likely to lose his job.
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Geithner Testifies Wednesday
EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is scheduled to testify Wednesday starting at 9:30 AM ET before the Senate Agriculture Committee, on over-the-dounter derivatives reform and systemic risk.
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New face: that's Tim, Tim 'Bonds'
New York Post (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
While critics last week on Capitol Hill were clamoring for the resignation of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, investors on Wall Street were buying up government bonds with historic zeal. In what some observers call a show of fresh confidence in G...
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Jim Rogers: Tim Geithner Has Been Wrong About Everything His Entire Career
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Investor Jim Rogers sat down for an interview with Maria Bartiromo for BusinessWeek , and in it he strikes on a lot of familiar themes ( Farmland in Africa is a good bet, gold will break $2,000 sometime in the next decade, there's too much paper money printing going on, etc. ), though what really stood out was his little foray into politics, specifically embattled Tim Geithner. Tim Geithner...
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Geithner to use "Shame" on Mortgage Companies
The Economic Populist (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... have no shame. The only ones who are being shamed are the Obama administration, in particular Tim Geithner. Last month, an oversight panel created by Congress reported that fewer than 2,000 of the 500,000 loan modifications then in progress had become permanent under Making Home Affordable.... To read the rest of this post, click on title link
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Geithner's Disgrace
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
From Slate: The issue has been festering for months... A new report issued by Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky now reveals that government officials, notably then-New York Fed President and current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, grievously damaged the nation and capitulated to the very banks they should have been supervising. Barofsky's report reads like a case study in failed...
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(Investment Guru) Jim Rogers: “..Geithner “Has Been Wrong About Just About Everything,” Will Lose His Job..”
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
“..Maria Bartoromo: Tim Geithner has been under attack lately. How’s he doing? Rogers:..Listen, I have been a critic for years. Geithner should never have been appointed to anything. He’s been wrong about just about everything for 15 years. Maria Bartorom: Do you think he’ll lose his job? Of course he’s going to lose his job, because as Mr. [...]
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David Fiderer: Rewriting History to Blame Tim Geithner: An Incomplete Story of the AIG Bailout
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Elliott Spitzer got it wrong, as did Paul Krugman, and countless bloggers. The popular narrative – that Tim Geithner needlessly favored the interests of banks over those of...
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Who Will Replace Tim Geithner?
The Rhetorican (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Thomas Cooley: The Gathering Geithner Storm. Tagged: Economics, Money, News, Politics
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Geithner Under Fire, Perhaps Being Shown the Door
BizzyBlog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Things are so bad for Tim Geithner, who shouldn’t have been appointedin the first place, and should have resigned back in March, that even a column in Forbes (”The Gathering Geithner Storm”) by Thomas Cooley designed to buck him up for the tough times ahead acknowledges the horrid job he did running the Federal Reserve in [...]
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Jim Rogers on Gold and Why Geithner Is Toast
EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
By Maria BartiromoI was on assignment in Singapore on Nov. 24 when gold hit an all-time high of $1,174 an ounce. That was fortuitous because Singapore is the home base of commodities guru Jim Rogers, creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index. Meantime, back in the U.S., reports were surfacing about growing discontent in the halls of Congress over the performance of Treasury Secretary Tim...
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Why Geithner Will Be Fired
lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... about growing discontent in the halls of Congress over the performance of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the possibility he might be replaced by JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon. When I rang up Rogers, he was his usual low-key self, with quiet opinions about the future of gold prices, commodities to watch, and why Obama should dump Geithner.MARIA BARTIROMOGold, as you know,...
- Jim Rogers on Gold and Why Geithner Is Toast - EconomicPolicyJournal.com
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HEY HEY, HO HO, Tim Geithner has got to go?
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
HEY HEY, HO HO, Tim Geithner has got to go?
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What Should Tim Geithner's Next Job Be?
DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... out of the building and turning his office over to JD, the president must go about getting rid of Geithner carefully. Jazzy Jeff-style , while tempting, is not going to cut it. Firing Geithner requires a gentler touch, and a glowing letter of recommendation. "The president must support his secretary and at the same time figure a way to ease him out of his position," the...
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The Uncertainty Economy Tim Geithner is not...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Uncertainty Economy Tim Geithner is not the Democrats' biggest problem. Preparing to write about yesterday's downward revision in third-quarter GDP, we were tempted to say the Obama Administration has hit a speed-bump on its promised exit out of the recession. But it is the American economy that has hit a speed bump, and on the evidence of the policy mix emerging now from Democratic Washington,...