Stories tagged with Timothy Geithner
Robert Rubin’s disciples dominate Obama economic team
By Carol Eisenberg | November 24, 2008 at 2:58pm | 0
No team of rivals, this. Top members of the president-elect’s economic team - Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers and Peter Orszag - are all proteges of former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, one of the Democratic architects of the financial deregulation undertaken in the Clinton years.
Obama to pick Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary
By Carol Eisenberg | November 21, 2008 at 4:29pm | 2
Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, is expected to be tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to be the next secretary of the U.S. Treasury, reports NBC News.
Obama convenes economic advisers, calls for swift action on economy
By Carol Eisenberg | November 7, 2008 at 4:37pm | 0
In his first news conference as president-elect Barack Obama laid out the top priority of his first 100 days: A package of spending that he hopes will stimulate economic growth and aid a struggling middle class.
NY Fed’s Timothy Geithner has high-powered mentoring group
By A. James Memmott | June 1, 2008 at 8:50am | 5
If there were ever a career civil servant’s Hall of Fame, Timothy F. Geithner would no doubt be an inductee.
Geithner, the Fed’s point man in NYC
By Muckety | August 29, 2007 at 3:54pm | 0
The Washington Post had a good profile yesterday of Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who is “facing his first big test as point man between the powerful global firms in the world’s financial capital and the policymakers who oversee them from Washington.”
The Post says Geithner is a strong crisis manager. During the turmoil in the debt markets, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. have been in touch with Geithner regularly.
