Well, he's not a banker.
"I'm a lawyer and you're a banker," Silvers said at one point during a disagreement over the way the public's exposure to risk was being presented in a chart.Geithner interrupted: "I've always been in public service," he said. Silvers went on, "But you were a banker."
"I've never been a banker," Geithner said.
He's not a lawyer.
I'm not an attorney, Congressman, so it would be hard for me to say.
He's not a regulator.
Ron Paul: "Well...any way. Any time a regulator comes in and says you're guilty of something Why doesn't the government have to prove he's guilty? Why can't we assume..."Geithner: "Is that a criminal violation... or?"
Ron Paul: "Civil or criminal. Why not? I mean that's a principle that's been around for more than 1000 years, at least 800 years."
Geithner: "I'm not a regulator nor a lawyer unfortunately, so I'm not sure I can give you an adequate answer to that, but I'd be happy to think about it a little bit and get back to you.
So what the hell is he?
Geithner: I've Never Been a Banker [The Wall Street Journal]
Posted by Ben_H , Apr 21, 2009 3:13PM
A Mason!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:14PM
A pimp
Posted by LiboRob , Apr 21, 2009 3:15PM
A highly educated custodian?
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:15PM
He is a sexy shoeless GOD OF WAR!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:15PM
A comrade.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:15PM
A fucking joke?
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:15PM
A ho
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:17PM
He's Michael Lewis' small penis.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:21PM
Jimmy Cayne had a pretty descriptive answer to this question.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:22PM
An alien. I think I saw him in "Mars Attacks"
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:23PM
he's a lackey
..for obama
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:25PM
@9 FTW
Posted by HAM05 , Apr 21, 2009 3:26PM
dad??
Posted by Anal_yst , Apr 21, 2009 3:26PM
Hugo Weaving?
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:26PM
I am not sure:
-Osama's secret agent
-Bernie's nephew
-One of BHO's brother/cousin
-A former GS employee
-PM of the largest HF ever
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:27PM
Rearrange the letters of his name: he is Mr. E. T. Thingie
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:28PM
I would like things that look like elves for $1000 Alex.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:28PM
I saw him once in a bowl of Lucky Charms, I could sware he was wearing a green outfit.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:29PM
Simply the product of a very nice JV between GS special sits team and CIA Special Activies Division
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:31PM
We've been over this before: He's the unclaimed spawn of Timothy Blair and Sloth from The Goonies.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:36PM
A third-rate bureaucrat?
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:37PM
a civil servant. but, thats not a profession its a title.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:37PM
Client #8 ?
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:38PM
He's a patsy for the British
-Wildcard bitches!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:39PM
He's out of his league.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:40PM
He is Kaiser Sose.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:42PM
Geithner's one of Obama's hacks
,
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:44PM
chinese fingercuffs
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:45PM
Dresses like a Kilgore, TX, clap doctor.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:46PM
He is the change we have been waiting for
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:47PM
hes a gadfly or a beltway insider, like vernon jordan
TRB
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:51PM
An investment banker? A Pawn? Definitely not a tax expert. On the subject of his taxes, does anyone think there wasn't a lawyer behind the scenes telling him to use turbo tax? @4 has it correct. He's a joke.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:51PM
I'm not a banker, but I play one on TV
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:54PM
His real name is Tim Noel. He is very elegant
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:54PM
He believes two things: 1. Location, location, location and 2. Buy the worst house in the best neighborhood.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 3:57PM
A small woodland creature
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:00PM
He's Dayman, fighter of the Nightman. A master of karate and friendship for everyone.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:03PM
Dylan Ratigan's Cum Dumpster
Posted by lieutenant winslow , Apr 21, 2009 4:04PM
he is... "the coon"
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:07PM
Timmy's too modest. He's all three in one: a regulawanker.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:09PM
He's not just a lawyer - he's unfrozen caveman lawyer. Your modern ways of banking scare and frighten him. The next time he here's about a synthetic CDS or a defaulting AAA Alt-A, he's going to run for the hills. He's just a caveman that fell into some ice 100,000 year ago. . .
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:18PM
He's a fucking tax cheat.
Any more questions?
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:22PM
future head of Morgan Stanley
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:24PM
@39,
"...and as the economy deteriorated, so did society...Then we elected a black President. He was supposed to change things...He didn't."
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:26PM
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:27PM
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:27PM
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:27PM
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:28PM
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:28PM
Why discredit with accusations when you can do it with a simple question? Brilliant!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:29PM
Batman
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:29PM
He is Dylan Ratigan's bruised ego.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:29PM
Sorry 'bout that computer malfunction.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:33PM
No, I'm not a Banker Congressman...but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:34PM
COLON BLOW!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:34PM
wow the elusive sexta-post...enjoy it while you can boys...this kind of idiocy only comes around once in a while.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:34PM
He's the pimple on Bill Gross's a$$. That's who he takes his orders from.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:39PM
I'd say he's a weasel, but that would be unkind to real weasels.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:39PM
A guy who failed completely and totally at both the IMF and the NY Fed. Nice to see we're in good hands.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:46PM
There once was a Giethner named Tim
And what do you make of him?
Honest and sharp,
He’ll keep you in TARP
Were he a banker, 10bps he would skim!
Posted by NotNasser , Apr 21, 2009 4:48PM
#40 gets the win.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:52PM
trick
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:54PM
@ 9 - Winner.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/03/jimmy_cayne_lets_loose_on_time.html
I miss Jimmy Cayne. He's probably on Tortola ripping tubes and nom'ing down mcgriddles.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 4:56PM
@63- the correct link is: http://dealbreaker.com/2009/03/jimmy-cayne-geithner-got-wood.php
Posted by NAS Keflavik boi , Apr 21, 2009 5:17PM
he's Henry Kissinger's ex-towel boy!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 5:25PM
This has got to be the most hilarious bunch of comments I have EVER read.
I say he is: The Antichrist. Ok, well maybe mini-Antichrist. Or maybe just mini-me?
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 5:30PM
I vote for #40's regulawanker. Funny!!
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 5:38PM
He's Bill Brasky's foreskin
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 5:52PM
someone has to clean up W's second recession, who would you propose?
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 6:17PM
He's a lover, he's a hater, he's a young boy bearing arms...
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 6:18PM
A student of Gono (Zimbabwe's central banker)?
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 6:21PM
http://www.pewnews.com/story.asp?sectioncode=44&storycode=46585
He's hired investment banker types.............
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 6:25PM
He's the boss of #2...
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 6:26PM
He is a hedge fund manager. of the TARP fund. But he is 100% long and levered
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 6:27PM
Kramer: I was never able to become a banker.
[Newman has a revelation.]
Newman: Banker! So you're killing yourself because your dreams of becoming a banker have gone unfulfilled. You-you-you-you can't live without being a banker.
Kramer: Yeah, yeah. If I can't be banker, I don't wanna live.
Newman: You must be banker.
Kramer: MUST be banker.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 7:23PM
Bawney Frank's condom
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 7:23PM
Bawney Fwank's condom
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 7:27PM
You ask what Tim Geithner is, do you? He is a public servant.
Posted by Last Man Standing , Apr 21, 2009 8:31PM
definitely a bureaucrat.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 8:37PM
maybe not the hero we want....... but the hero we need.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 9:52PM
Beeper King
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/03/what_will_the_beeper_kings_new.html
Posted by Lowly Assistant , Apr 21, 2009 11:10PM
He's been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.
He's been up and down and over and out; he knows one thing: each time he finds himself flat on his face, he picks himself up and gets back in the race.
That's Turbo Tax Tim. Just a Turbo Tax man in a Turbo Tax land doing his Turbo Tax thing. Leave him alone.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 11:13PM
He's a clueless tool.
Posted by guest , Apr 21, 2009 11:41PM
39 and 42. Rock on.
Tim is... what an apathetic and fat American populace deserves.
Posted by guest , Apr 22, 2009 2:37AM
The most uninteresting man in the world
Posted by guest , Apr 22, 2009 3:24AM
I've met him. He is much better than that idiot Paulson.
Posted by guest , Apr 22, 2009 5:12AM
There is an idea of a Tim Geithner; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real Tim Geithner: only an entity, something illusory.
Posted by chernevik , Apr 22, 2009 8:23AM
Shoeshine boy or caddy, take your pick.
I love the tough tone with Sununu. Yeah, Timmy, you're a real bad-ass against ex-Senators.
Posted by EvilBuzzard , Apr 22, 2009 8:50AM
@87 - Somewhere, out there, there is a true Tim Geithner form. We haven't seen that form yet except as a shadow on the wall of a cave....
Posted by dddienst , Apr 22, 2009 11:39AM
He is Wesley Mouch. (Atlas Shrugged reference)
Posted by dddienst , Apr 22, 2009 11:43AM
Wesley Mouch
A member of the Looters and, at the beginning of the storyline, the incompetent lobbyist whom Hank Rearden reluctantly employs in Washington. Initially Wesley Mouch is the least powerful and least significant of the Looters - the other members of this group feel they can look down upon him with impunity. Eventually he becomes the most powerful Looter, and the country's economic dictator, thereby illustrating Rand's belief that a government-run economy places too much power in the hands of incompetent bureaucrats who would never have positions of similar influence in a private sector business. His name, appropriately, is evocative of the word "mooch," his modus operandi
Posted by guest , Apr 22, 2009 11:54AM
A spineless jellyfish
Posted by guest , Apr 23, 2009 5:21PM
He's from South Park.
TIMMY!
Posted by travis199 , Apr 29, 2009 6:20PM
Little Timmy is Hank Paulson's disowned son.
Posted by guest , Aug 12, 2009 10:20PM
He's a douche. He might even be santorum. But he's for sure a douche.