Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner : The New Yorker.
Tim Geithner did manage to hold the financial system together for the most part through the worst financial crisis in modern times. Yet he seems reviled on both the left and the right. The media ignores the successes and plays up the failure, as the media so loves to do. I guess it sells more advertising.
Could he have done better? In retrospect nearly everything done by humans can be done better. Hindsight is 20/20 they say. Populist anger is driven by the crisis causing the curtain to sag a bit, revealing ugly truths about the interrelationships between big money and the government. Americans like their illusions.
