When Timothy Geithner was offered the position of Treasury Secretary in 2008, he understood it would not win him any popularity contests: "I was pretty confident it was a no-win job," he laughed. He ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s profile of Tim Geithner in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, pegged to the former Treasury secretary’s just-released book, doesn’t break much news. Most of us who followed ...

So far the members of Congress who think the Treasury Secretary should go don't quite constitute a full-blown caucus, much less anything resembling a majority. But they're expressing their opinions ...

After his hellish opening weeks, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner started inviting White House economic officials across the street to his conference room for hours-long working dinners that have ...

What’s wrong with this picture? Tim Geithner, the former US Treasury secretary and one-time head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, wants to be seen as one of the guys who got the financial system ...

President Barack Obama has saluted the outgoing Timothy Geithner as one of the best U.S. Treasury secretaries ever. He's surely been among the most contentious. Not since the Great Depression had an ...

Geithner is the last member of President Obama's original economic team June 30, 2011 -- The possible departure of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner once an agreement is reached with Congress to raise ...

Some people were surprised this week when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced his post-Obama job: distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. There was, as Matt Yglesias noted ...

Timothy Geithner, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, functions in a world of cold calculation, hard dollars and luftmensch economists. His wife, Carole Geithner, is a therapist and grief counselor ...

Noam Scheiber has a nice piece about Barack Obama’s two top choices for Treasury Secretary, the New York Fed chair Tim Geithner and the former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. The most ...

WASHINGTON -- Timothy Geithner will remain on the job as Treasury secretary, the Treasury Department announced Sunday in a written statement. "Secretary Geithner has let the president know that he ...

Timothy Geithner to America: We’re going big, aggressive and expensive. On Tuesday, the Treasury Secretary laid out general plans to fix the nation’s ailing financial sector. He called the Bush ...