Timothy Geithner News

These are good times for conservatives who have shouted in the woods for decades about mistreatment from government and the mainstream national press.

Federal officials at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are investigating allegations that Bloomberg News journalists may have used Bloomberg terminals to gain access to former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's usage information.

Janet Yellen is by far the most likely successor to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke , according to economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey, and most agree that she is sufficiently resistant to inflation to be a successful leader of the central bank.

Financial data and news company Bloomberg LP says it has corrected a "mistake" in its newsgathering policies and cut off its journalists' special access to client log-in activity on the company's ubiquitous trading information terminals after Goldman Sachs complained about the matter last month.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew visits teacher Daniel Bowena s eight grade science class at I CAN University of Cleveland Preparatory School, a public charter school, where he discussed with students the importance of STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, education.A Automatic spending cuts by Congress are jeopardizing ... (more)

"Jack assures me that he is going to work to make at least one letter legible in order not to debase our currency should he be confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury," the president joked when he nominated Mr.

MEET THE NEW TREASURY CHIEF OF STAFF Treasury Secretary Jack Lew picked Chris Weideman to succeed Mark Patterson as his chief of staff.

Last week, Mother Jones reported that some financial reform advocates were worrying that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was not taking a sufficiently fierce stance against a group of House bills that would weaken Wall Street reform.

President Barack Obama has spent more time hitting the links and vacationing than attending meetings about the economy, according to a study released by a conservative government-watchdog group.

In the months since President Obama's second inauguration ceremony on the steps of Capitol Hill, Americans have seen plenty of new faces in the administration.

Keith Hennessy on Bush and the financial crisis : How Involved Was George W. Bush in the Fall of 2008?: As most of us recall, George W. Bush was president of the United States during the crucial year of 2008 when the economy slid into recession and a series of panics and runs gripped the shadow banking system.