Carmaker, Banker, Broker …

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Feb 17, 2009 Obama must deal with a new presidential role that he did not seek but cannot avoid: managing big chunks of the private-sector economy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Auto Task Force … Activate!

Staff / Truthdig Feb 17, 2009 What's to be done about the floundering American automotive industry? Appoint a "car czar," you say? No, this is a job for a whole team of people, such as the newly formed Presidential Task Force on Autos. One small hitch: It'll be headed up by Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Hand on History

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Feb 16, 2009 President Obama senses that fate has handed him opportunities few presidents ever get, and that his test will be whether he makes good use of his chance to bend history at one of its "inflection points." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: The Stimulus, the Bailout and Judd Gregg

Staff / Truthdig Feb 16, 2009 How stimulating is the stimulus, really? Did Obama bite off more than he could chew? Who wears the pants at the Treasury Department? Answers to these questions and more in this week's episode. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mr. Inside

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Feb 13, 2009 The treasury secretary will get much better at making his case. I'm confident in that prediction because after watching his debut this week, I don't see how he could get much worse. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The High Cost of Centrism

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Feb 12, 2009 The Obama administration keeps having to learn that bland centrism is not pragmatic, it's not helpful in resolving a big crisis, and it certainly doesn't buy you any love. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Where’s the Top Gun?

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Feb 12, 2009 Well, that didn't work out. In pushing for a new financial industry bailout, Treasury Secretary Geithner came across like a banker trying to do a politician's job. Obama owes us some hands-on involvement. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Geithner Misfires

Patrick Corrigan, The Toronto Star Feb 12, 2009 Dig deeper

No Tough Love for Wall Street

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Feb 11, 2009 What an insipid anticlimax! Rising to “a challenge more complex than our financial system has ever faced,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner promised on Tuesday to give trillions more to the very folks who profited from that malignant complexity. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Nominee Confirmed or Your Money Back

Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant Feb 5, 2009 Dig deeper

Runaway Wall Street

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Feb 4, 2009 It is instructional that only one of the three tax-challenged Obama appointees has survived public scorn to claim a high position in the new administration. Oddly enough, it is Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the man who will collect our taxes, whose career has not been stunted by his failure to pay them. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Economic Policy Could Scuttle Obama’s Good Start

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jan 28, 2009 He is making trillion-dollar decisions that will cast the die for the rest of his promising agenda. Unfortunately, while he has already proved to be a brilliant agent of change in so many ways, in economic policy he has relied on the financial "experts" who helped get America into this mess. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )