To hear Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner tell the tale, the federal officials negotiating the taxpayer bailout of American Insurance Group had no choice but to provide full payment to the company’s trading partners, including Goldman Sachs.
“There was no way, financial, legal, or otherwise, we could have imposed More…
The latest political clamor over AIG, poised to combust next Wednesday at a House hearing on backdoor payments to banks that made risky deals with the company, centers on the Federal Reserve’s effort to conceal details of those payments. But senior officials, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, have so far More…
Two messages worth noting from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s interview with CNBC yesterday: (1) Although he was the head of the New York Federal Reserve in late 2008, he had nothing to do with the decision to pay $62 billion to Goldman Sachs and others through More…
Easily the most curious aspect of the AIG bonus scandal that captivated the country last March was that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who’d proposed to stop payment of those bonuses, took the fall when Treasury officials, behind Secretary Tim Geithner, swept onto the scene and altered More…
The economy continued down its rough road in 2009, with any hope of a quick recovery dashed by a rising wave of foreclosures and unemployment. Banks reined in lending to consumers and businesses while Wall Street firms pulled down record profits and offered generous bonuses. Perhaps the biggest economic More…
For Tim Geithner, it’s been a difficult week.
“Conservatives agree that as point person, you failed,” Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) told the Treasury secretary yesterday during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee. “Liberals are growing in that consensus as well. Poll after poll shows that the American public has More…
Pranksters with too much time on the hands are alleviating their boredom by scavaging around Detroit’s ample supply of abandoned and vacant properties, The Wall Street Journal reports. A staff videographer even documented a group of perpetrators in the act of pushing a dump truck out a fourth-floor window More…
The Washington Post reports that President Obama today will roll out his plan to increase regulation of the financial system.
The plan seeks to overhaul the nation’s outdated system of financial regulations. Senior officials debated using a bulldozer to clear the way for fundamental reforms but decided
One aspect of the housing market that seems to be holding true is that no one is left untouched by its decline, and that includes the rich and powerful. First came word last week that even Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner can’t find a buyer for his $1.6 million tudor More…
The Troubled Asset Relief Program’s inspector general, Neil Barofsky is out with a scathing report today, contending the program already is marred by tax and securities fraud, insider trading, and other violations. Barofsky has opened 20 separate criminal probes into the alleged violations – and that’s just for starters, The More…
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