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Wall Streeters Question Geithner's Role in Crisis

Treasury pick has been at the table all along

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 25, 2008 8:51 AM CST

(Newser) – Markets surged yesterday when Barack Obama announced that Timothy Geithner would become treasury secretary as part of an all-star economic team. But Wall Street actually harbors some skepticism about Geithner, writes Andrew Sorkin in the New York Times. As chair of the New York Fed,... Read full story »

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