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Timothy Franz Geithner (; born August 18, 1961) is an American economist, central banker, and civil servant.
Read More at Wikipedia ›The European Union urged Spain on Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contributed the recent market turmoil and the country's soaring borrowing costs.
A European Commission spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj, told Spanish National Radio that the conservative government in Madrid needed to spell out quickly how it plans to finance the recapitalization of troubled lender Bankia SA and whether there are other banks burdened by toxic real estate assets that might need assistance.The government nationalized Bankia earlier this month, and the €19 billion ($23.6 billion) in public money that will need to be injected is more than twice what the government had estimated.Doubts over how recession-hit Spain will handle the bailout have sparked concerns that the country itself will soon follow Greece, Portugal and Ireland in asking for financial assistance. Spain's borrowing costs on the international debt markets — a s...By Peter Roff Senior Fellow, Institute for Liberty/former Senior Political Writer, United Press InternationalDespite poll numbers indicating the American people cont...
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A key House Republican says the $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase raises critical questions about how banks control their risks. But Republican lawmakers rej...
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Government leaders past and present gathered in Washington to do what they do best about the nation's deficit woes: talk.At an annual "fiscal summit" Tuesday in a ca...
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With the U.S. losing its Triple-A credit rating for the first time ever, Republican lawmakers and presidential contenders are calling on President Obama to fire Trea...
By Andrea Tantaros Republican Political Commentator/FOXNews.com ContributorPeople have been speculating all week about how the economic spendulus bill will affect ou...
House Republicans gave President Obama an earful Wednesday over their concerns regarding unemployment, the national debt and government regulation, a day after the H...
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By Judith Miller Writer/FOX News Contributor Two dogs made news yesterday: the dud of a bank bailout plan unveiled by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, which caused t...