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Tim Geithner Will Not Be Showing Himself Out

If he gets asked to leave, fine, great even. It's not even really a secret at this point that he wants to go (why do you think he stopped trying to sell his house?). But if anyone here thinks that...

Does This Even Qualify As A Negotiation?

Timothy Geithner honed his spinelessness chops long before he got to the Treasury Dept., according to a new report. Well, not that long before. It came a year ago, when Timmy headed the New York Fed and gave AIG's counterparties...

Tim Geithner Is Kinda Worried About The Deficit

The federal deficit has ballooned by more than $1 trillion dollars this year. This does not make Tim Geithner very happy, but it also doesn't worry him much, because spending more than we make is at best his third most-pressing...

CIT Bankruptcy Shows Who's Boss

Score this one as a loss for the TARP Program: CIT Group, the ancient commercial lender bailed out late last year by the federal government and earlier this year by a group of hedge funds, has gone into bankruptcy protection....

New Name Floated In Geithner Replacement Talks

Not Obama's favorite banker, Jamie Dimon, though you're on the right track in assuming it's someone who doesn't take shit or prisoners from anyone (though he will take a bullet). Someone who, perhaps unlike our current Treasury Secretary, could stand...

Tim Geithner And Larry Summers Will Shock You With Their Tennis Moves

The first because he's not a total pussy and the second because he can move. Also, according to Nick Bollettieri, the duo's coach, Big Lar doesn't smile when he's playing, which makes sense considering that while he loves tennis, it...

Who Told Tim Geithner To Go F*ck Himself?

Was it: A. Hank Paulson ("You think you can do what I do? You can't do shit!") B. His realtor ("Good luck selling this hole without me") C. Phil Goldstein (He'll tell anyone to fuck off) D. Jamie Dimon (The...

Swan Song

As Tim Geithner embarks on his campaign for confidence in China, it seems not everybody is so sure that Timmy G and the boys back in Washington have this whole running up massive debt levels and record fiscal deficit thing...

Caption Contest Monday: Make Bernanke's A Double

The Fed Chairman and Treasury Secretary at a recent Nationals game. What do you think they talked about?...

"In the next hundred days, we will house train our dog Bo"

"...because the last thing Tim Geithner needs is someone else treating him like a fire hydrant." (1:01)...

Geithner Is "Dauntingly Fit" And Quick On Tennis Court, Object Of Tennis Partner's Threesome Fantasies

As you're aware, the Times released Tim Geithner's schedule last week, from when he was New York Fed Chairman. He had some tennis dates with former Portfolio editor Jim Impoco in 2007, and Daily Intel got in touch with the...

I'm Cracking Your Safe... I'm Cracking Your Safe

From the mail bag. Annoying animation after the jump....

New CNBC Broadcast Book Guideline: When Showing Tim, Show Industrials

Once they find a correlation, they are about as likely to let go as a pitbull clamping down on a small child....

The Safecracker: New Trailer!

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The following are excerpts from a speech U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will deliver on financial stability at 11 a.m. (1600 GMT). "As President Obama said in his inaugural address, our economic strength is derived...

Program Note: A New Episode Of "The Safecracker" (11ET/10CT)

Tim "The Safecracker" Geithner is going to be demonstrating his deft touch for opening vaults this morning and we will take you there via liveblog. As being well-prepared will help attenuate the degree to which you are blinded and blind-sided...

Strict New Rules Will Be Put In Place (For Everyone Else)

Remember all that noise, delivered with practiced and indignant huff, about lobby rules? About the hiring of former lobbyists, and how that was a bad thing(tm) and would in no way be permitted in the new administration. Yeah, well, not...

Live: The Mistakes I Made In Preparing My Tax Returns

10:48 am: Tim Geithner is that boring English literature substitute teacher who reads in a staccato, not quite monotone, like its the first time he's read out loud in public and he's really distracted by the blond in the front...

Cox to Bernanke and Paulson: "How Come You Guys Don't Call Anymore?"

SEC chair Christopher Cox missed the 5am conference call when Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson decided that the Fed would lend funds to rescue Bear Stearns from bankruptcy, the Wall Street Journal reports on today's front page. The call's time...