Treasury secretary's pragmatic approach to financial crisis paid off
(NEWSER) - David Brooks leaps to the defense of Tim Geithner today, arguing that the treasury secretary's critics, who last spring were dismissing him as a hapless "Bambi in the headlights," were mostly wrong and he was mostly right. The system is now much healthier, TARP money is being repaid, and the administration's unwavering support for Geithner when he was taking flak from all sides looks impressive in retrospect, Brooks writes in the New York Times . More»
