Fresh off a very enjoyable launch party for his new NetNet blog on CNBC’s Web site–where, incidentally, Felix Salmon could be seen chatting happily with Herb Greenberg, the hedge fund manager Jim Chanos brought a statuesque blonde companion, and Joe Weisenthal was the only one wearing sneakers–John Carney has one of the most interesting Read More
In the past, there’s been some chafing between Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Elizabeth Warren, the new pseudo-head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Now that the pair of financial regulators are being asked to shed their animosity and work together to create a bank regulator with a $400 million budget. We’ll get a Read More
Internet newspaper The Huffington Post has obtained Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s appointment calendar, and duly “analyzed” it, by counting up the number of appointments Geithner took with various bankers, congresspeople and administration officials so far during his tenure.
Apparently Geithner met with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein 38 times from January 2009 until March Read More
Well! New York Magazine helpfully points out that Billy Crudup will be playing former New York Federal Reserve Chairman and current Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in HBO’s adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s bailout tome, Too Big to Fail.
Crudup’s recent portrayals of government employees include J. Edgar Hoover in Public Enemies and the naked Read More
In the latest variation on the theme that the September 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy was in reality a calamity for civilization, and perhaps would have been better avoided, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has published a series of emails revealing that officials faced heated debate and high uncertainty over what to do about the Read More
New York’s cover story about the strained relationship between Obama and Wall Street doesn’t offer much in the way of new information, but author John Heilemann did pepper the article with some juicy Glengarry-Glen-Ross-meets-The West Wing-style quotes.
The best among them is a cringe-inducing moment in a section devoted to the lack of Read More
It’s April 1, but
The administration’s plan for overhauling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was widely anticipated as part of or alongside this February’s budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year. The budget for fiscal year 2011 was presented on schedule, but it did not include a formal road map for the government-sponsored enterprises. It now appears Read More
With his reputation still suffering from those bank bailouts–and Democrats worrying that he could be a liability in the upcoming midterms–Tim Geithner is trying to manifest a charm offensive. So where does a gruff Treasury Secretary start softening up?
Vogue, of course.
The embattled Mr. Geithner will grace the pages of Anna Wintour’s Read More
