Posts Tagged ‘geithner’

Geithner: Obama Wouldn’t Ask Me to Stay in a Second Term

January 25th, 2012 | No Comments

That’s the headline.  That’s pretty much the meat of the story.  Timothy Geithner thinks Obama won’t re-appoint him. I think he’s giving Obama too much credit. I don’t think Obama could care less whether he stays or goes.  The position is moot under Obama. Obama has one economic philosophy, tax the rich and give it [...]

Is Obama stunned about Geithner?

March 20th, 2009 | No Comments

President Barack Obama said Thursday on “The Tonight Show” that he was stunned when he learned of the bonuses that bailed-out insurance giant AIG was paying its employees. Obama told host Jay Leno that the payments raised moral and ethical problems — and that the administration was going to do everything it could to get [...]

Obama’s hiccups

January 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Everyone is saying this has been a near-flawless transition: It had to come some time. Despite a nearly flawless transition period of astute, substantive and widely praised cabinet appointments, the nascent Obama administration has unintentionally provoked its first controversy. Significantly, it is in the sphere of national security. I haven’t been quite as impressed. Bill [...]