Tag Archives: Hank Paulson

You Wish Tim Geithner were a stronger guy

February 8, 2010 – 7:39 am

In a press interview that was recorded a few nights ago and broadcast yesterday, Tim Geithner said the kind of thing you want to hear a Treasury Secretary say: the US will absolutely never lose its Aaa debt rating.

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Hank Paulson’s Secret Goldman Sachs Meeting

October 21, 2009 – 9:33 am

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on Hank Paulson’s secret meeting with Goldman Sachs, as reported by Andrew Ross Sorkin and hashed out by Felix Salmon, and whether it’s really worthy of all this internet conspiracy theory hullabaloo.

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Naked Short Selling and the Financial Crisis

October 5, 2009 – 9:01 am

Today’s podcast focuses on the controversy over naked short selling, prompted mostly by leftist Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi’s coverage of the financial crisis, and whether or not the practice is actually to blame for a whole slew of terrible things — including the demise of Lehman Brothers.

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Lehman Brothers, the Federal Reserve, and the Limits of Bailouts

September 15, 2009 – 9:32 am

There is indeed an argument to be made that extraordinary times require extraordinary powers, but these guys never stepped over the line. (They did step right up to it.) This is a CRUCIAL point, because it means this is still a democracy.

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Hank Paulson, Master of Disaster

September 1, 2009 – 8:45 am

Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Tuesday, September 1st edition of Coffee & Markets. Today’s podcast focuses on Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair profile of Henry Paulson, which contains some fascinating anecdotes about Paulson’s time during the financial crisis.

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As the Economy Turns, Who Should Get the Credit? Who Will?

August 10, 2009 – 9:49 am

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast primarily focuses on a David Leonhardt piece in the New York Times on who gets the credit for the apparent financial turnaround — or at least keeping things from getting worse.

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Toxic Assets and the New Immortal Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

August 6, 2009 – 8:40 am

Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Thursday, August 6th edition of Coffee and Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace. Today’s podcast concerns Tim Geithner, Hank Paulson, and the planned remake of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Tim Geithner Shoots the Messenger

May 24, 2009 – 1:15 am

Tim Geithner’s legacy as Treasury Secretary will depend on what he does to overhaul the regulation of the financial system. When things go really awry and your job is to make sure that never happens again, you have a choice of two basic approaches: you can try to understand and address the sources of the problem; or you can shoot the messenger. According to the headlines, Geithner is focusing on the latter.

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