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<blockquote data-quote="omnimog" data-source="post: 1711184" data-attributes="member: 268304">...okay with him then? Right? &gt;&gt;&gt;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]&nbsp;Wikinews has related news: Obama&#039;s choice for Treasury issues warning on China 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] &lt;&lt;&lt;from this source;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_F._Geithnerhe sounds like the kind of guy who fit right in with Bush crowd- so that was okay, then?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="omnimog, post: 1711184, member: 268304"] ...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] Wikinews has related news: Obama's choice for Treasury issues warning on China 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] <<< 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? [/QUOTE]

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