i never heard you complain about Geithner in the last 8 years? You were...

[omnimog]

...okay with him then? Right? >>>
He was director of the Policy Development and Review Department (2001-2003) at the International Monetary Fund.[7]

In October 2003, he was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.[14] His salary in 2007 was $398,200.[15] Once at the New York Fed, he became Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee component. His somewhat caustic and arbitrary management style was often evidenced during his tenure with the Federal Reserve.[citation needed] In 2006, he also became a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.[16]

In March 2008, he arranged the rescue and sale of Bear Stearns;[9][17] in the same year, he is believed to have played a pivotal role in both the decision to bail out AIG as well as the government decision not to save Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy.[18] As a Treasury official, he helped manage multiple international crises of the 1990s[11] in Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand.[12]

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Geithner believes, along with Henry Paulson, that the United States Department of the Treasury needs new authority to experiment with responses to the financial crisis of 2008.[9]
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from this source;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_F._Geithner
he sounds like the kind of guy who fit right in with Bush crowd- so that was okay, then?

 

[bvw]

You did some research, that's good. The man was a Typhoid Mary -- and you're right, too many politicians and bureaucrats and elites in power were way out of bounds, or operating beyond their ability, in ethics and philosophy of managing other people's money. Carelessness of the modern elite!

That's something that really got well underway back in the 1970's according to my own studies then, and the old wisdoms of my Scottish mentor and friend who was a top-level banker, for most of his career a bank examiner. He left the field is disgust.

And you are also right in being aggravated at the Bush administrations. Both should have known better, I'd say, but I also can understand how their focus and energies must have been overwhelmed by our war efforts. Yes, Bush set a bad mark at the end by not dealing with the "crisis" more forcefully and with vigor. He seems to have been dispirited by the vile media response to Katrina which hectored him unmercifully and totally incorrectly. Still, a leader has to keep his wits and spirit when all others lose theirs!

We need a complete regime change -- Geithner, Bernanke, Obama, Dodd, Frank, etc, etc must go. Or we are sailing into a maelstrom without a rudder.