We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values,… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it. — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move. — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
