Rarely do the names Descartes and Voltaire emerge during a debate on global economic policy. But when they do, it often means Christine Lagarde is using philosophy to drive home a sophisticated point.

Timothy Geithner was sitting in his spacious Treasury Department office overlooking the White House earlier this month, mulling the U.S.’s sometimes testy relationship with China. The view wasn’t ...

Republican Congressman Allen West appeared on Fox & Friends and was none too pleased with remarks by Senator John Kerry and advisor to President Obama, David Axelrod, where both described the credit ...

In a scandalous new legal filing, an exec at Standard & Poor's parent company claims that former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner threatened the S&P in 2011, after the agency downgraded the U.S.'s ...

Geithner Got Us Through Fellow New York Times columnist David Brooks, however, mounts an impressive defense of the Treasury Secretary. He points out that no one liked Geithner back in the spring, ...

Timothy Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, didn’t pay his federal self-employment taxes for four years because he “forgot.” That is no longer a ...

Average Americans today might need to be counting their spoons, because President Obama and Congress have visited Timothy Geithner upon us. He’s the new treasury secretary, our nation’s top financial ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Of all the things we expected to see in the 2007 Federal Reserve meeting transcripts released last week, Tim Geithner being ...

On the face of it, the lengthy Tim Geithner profile in today’s New York Times is not quite as unflattering as last Friday’s cover story in Portfolio — but it’s pretty close. Both perpetuate a slightly ...

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On March 15, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and a top lieutenant named Lee Sachs were summoned to the Roosevelt Room for a three o'clock meeting with the president and his chief advisers. For Team ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday hoping to spend time with lawmakers discussing new regulatory tools to deal with failing ...