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...Lew is the current Treasury head, appointed by President Obama to the post on Feb. 27 of this year. He replaced Timothy Geithner, who was running the department at the time of the IRS illegal targeting of conservative groups. Geithner is now...
...maturing debt. Borrowers may very well demand a higher rate of interest, especially if Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner raise the specter of default, as they did in 2011.Issuing such a threat is irresponsible and even counterproductive...
...Obama's team a new look in his second term. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Panetta and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are departing and in addition to LaHood, the heads of the Interior and Labor departments also have announced their...
...empty.The hyperventilating over the March employment report is really much ado about nothing. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said as much when he was dispatched to the Sunday morning talk shows - not on April 8 but on April 15, nine days...
...suggests that TARP under Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was good, while under his Obama administration successor, Timothy Geithner, the same program was bad. When asked at the debate what he would do, as president, in a similar situation...
...code and starting over with something much simpler: a flat tax. I want to make the tax code so simple that even Timothy Geithner can file his taxes on time." It was a reference to Obama's Treasury secretary. Behind the scenes, the candidates...
Timothy Geithner's expected confirmation as the new U.S. Treasury secretary has been tarnished by news of his perplexing failure to pay self...
...in the top tax brackets will damage the budget to such an extent that our economy will suffer. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, for example, said that sustaining the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans would "hurt economic recovery...
...and personalities in public life better, he might have anticipated some of these problems. His Treasury choice, Timothy Geithner, turned out to have unpaid taxes. More important, in his first big test - explaining the new effort to bolster...
...him. One of the White House rejoinders is that none of the top economic advisers - Summers, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel - is considered anti-business or a liberal ideologue; they have instead...