What Tim Geithner got right
Posted: November 24, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
It’s amazing to go back and read what people were saying about Timothy Geithner in the spring. Many people said he looked terrified as the Treasury secretary, like Bambi in the headlights. The New Republic ran an essay called “The Geithner Disaster.” Portfolio magazine ran a brutal, zeitgeist-capturing profile that concluded by comparing Geithner to Robert Redford’s hollow man character in The Candidate.
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Editorial, Pages 12 on 11/24/2009
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