We need a Treasury Secretary that can identify with working men and women and who is able to fight for the needs of all working people.
Today, we accept your resignation
because you helped create our financial problems.
Thus you are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
"The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them." - Albert Einstein
Geithner, AIG, Goldman: The Story that Keeps on Ticking
Geithner has long been confused about his job description.
A Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) member said there's "growing consensus" among liberals that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should step down.
Clinton, Obama, Rubin, Summers.... Axelrod, Emanuel.. these men share many traits, it would seem, such as extolling the virtues of patience.
Matt Taibbi Runs Down Goldman' Sachs Graduates with Government Positions
Put Goldman on a diet of humble pie
Don't Get Fooled Again: The Fed botched banking regulation once already. So why does Obama want to give it more power?
What the Jump in the U.S. Savings Rate Really Means: Debt Deflation Arrives
Regulatory Capture - What the Big Banks Have Won
Foreclosure Fiasco
How the Financial Reform Plan Protects the Status Quo - Obama's (Latest) Surrender to Wall Street
If President Obama wants to get something done he is going to have to, in the words of one financial columnist, "make some bankers mad".
The US has a huge corporate safety net, allowing the banks to gamble with impunity, but offers little to struggling individuals
Former Fannie Mae head to take over bank bailout
Sheila Bair is On Your Side
Appointment in Yekaterinburg: The Ending of America's Financial-Military Empire
Wall Street's False Armistice
Geithner Must Go
Low-income housing construction is stalled due to the economic collapse -- and a recent ruling by Tim Geithner is preventing federal funds from reaching the victims of Katrina.
Auto Bailout Blues: Spin, Lies and Layoffs
Changing Obama's Mindset
The Latest in Junk Economics - The Toll Booth Economy
Tiny Tim Sings Off-Key
The Baseline Scenario
What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it
Pierre Bourdieu, Tim Geithner, and Cultural Capital
I have the awkward feeling that it is the kind of strategy sometimes seen in Monte Carlo: “when in trouble double”.
That is a polite way of saying Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Obama's economic guru, Larry Summers, are so fixated on trying to save their old Wall Street colleagues they do not seem to recognize the deterioration underway broadly in banking.
Swedish Finance Minister Slams Geithner Plan
Panning Geithner's Plan
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