Geithner Got It Right

Treasury secretary's pragmatic approach to financial crisis paid off

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 20, 2009 5:16 AM CST

(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,... Read full story »

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