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UPDATE: Tim Geithner Is IN NO WAY LOBBYING FOR BEN BERNANKE'S JOB, Making Jokes At Bernanke's Expense, Says Treasury

Earlier this morning, during Tim Geithner's appearance on the Hill to discuss the Obama administration's plan to overhaul financial regulations, Senator Corker referred to Timbo as "Mr. Chairman." Geithner responded, "I'm not 'Mr. Chairman.' Yet." Because we are prone to...

Geithner Is Not Going There

A couple weeks after being laughed at by a room full of students at Peking University for his "Chinese assets are very safe" quip, Timmy did not take the bait this morning when he was asked the one question...

Another Blow (Of The Sad Trombone) For Tim Geithner

Apparently our elfin' Treasury Secretary was not successful in his quest to get someone to buy his Larchmont-area Tudor, even after dropping the asking price from $1.635 million to $1.575 million (he and wife Carole paid $1.602 million for the...

Almost Time to Play Ball Again

Can it really be true? Is the Treasury going to free the likes of GS, MS, and JPM from the TARP jail it threw them in during that nefarious meeting last October 13th? You know the one. The meeting without...

Bailout Nation Will Tolerate No Dissent

Message to diligent administrators concerned with the preservation of taxpayer dollars: Get in the way of the bailout juggernaut and you will make powerful enemies. Consider the plight of FDIC head Sheila Bair: Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank...