Washington's Whipping Boy

摘要

Timothy qeithner tried to talk Barack Obama out of appointing him Treasury secretary in late 2008. Along with Fed-eral Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and President Obama's all-star team of advis-ers, Geithner was a core member of the rescue team that won the financial crisis of 2008-09. The TARP programs, market interventions, and the stimulus of 2009 stopped the panic, halted the economy's cataclysmic fall, and created the condi-tions for growth.