Greta Thunberg brushes off U.S. finance chief’s criticism
Steven Mnuchin had a day earlier dismissed Thunberg’s suggestion that governments and companies cut back dramatically on fossil fuels with a condescending barb.
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Transcripts reveal Fed reactions during 2008 economic crisis
Federal Reserve Board transcripts from 2008 released on Friday give a behind-the-scenes look at how the nation’s central bankers reacted to the global financial meltdown. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with the Wall Street Journal’s Jon Hilsenrath about what new insight these…
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With Summers Out of the Running, Who Will Be Tapped to Succeed Bernanke?
With Summers Out of the Running, Who WIll Be Tapped to Succeed Bernanke?…
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Obama Announces IRS Resignation, Promises Safeguards and Oversight Cooperation
Obama Announces IRS Resignation, Promises Safeguards and Oversight Cooperation…
Obama Taps Chief of Staff Jack Lew to Be Next Treasury Secretary…
Lawmakers grilled former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Thursday over the government's role in Bank of America's merger with Merrill Lynch, saying authorities withheld information about losses and intimidated bank executives into sealing the deal.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defends the stringency of the banking stress tests and offers insight on the pace of U.S. job losses as unemployment reaches 8.9 percent.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faced new questions on the Obama administration's bank rescue on Capitol Hill Tuesday as the International Monetary Fund predicted U.S. financial institutions could lose $2.7 trillion from the global credit crisis.
Telling lawmakers that the U.S. financial system has grown "too unstable and fragile," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner rolled out the Obama administration's plans Thursday for a massive overhaul of the government's financial oversight role.
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