Timothy Geithner

Only A Taxpayer Would Mistake Tim Geithner For A "Banker"

Moe Tkacik | April 21, 2009, 3:11PM

Too often a tedious standoff between the somnolent/dry and the grandstanding/gratuitous, Congressional hearings about the financial crisis have nevertheless produced a few moments of existential clarity. (We refer, obviously, to the time in December when Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings asked Neel Kashkari if he was a "chump", which was surely a question on the lips of anyone who had glimpsed the then-TARP overseer's high school yearbook photos.)

But Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's appearance before a the TARP oversight panel this morning yielded a similarly exchange when AFL-CIO Associate General Counsel Damon Silvers dared to accuse Geithner of being a "banker":

Partial transcript after the jump.

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Bailout

Eilzabeth Warren On Daily Show

Zachary Roth | April 16, 2009, 1:01PM

Last night, Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel for the bailout, talked to Jon Stewart on the The Daily Show.

Here's part 1:

And here's part 2:

AIG

Warren: Fire Top Management At AIG and Citi

Zachary Roth | April 7, 2009, 5:25PM

We're late to this, but it looks like Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who chairs the Congressional Oversight panel for the TARP funds, is upping the ante.

After several months of raising the alarm about the Treasury Department's failure to attach strings to the bailout funds, to little apparent effect, Warren will issue a hard-hitting report this week that broadly indicts the Obama administration's approach to the financial crisis, reported the British paper The Observer over the weekend.

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