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Posts Tagged ‘ Geithner ’

Treasury Stress Test Gives Bank a Dose of Their Own Medicine

Feb 14th, 2009 | By Rob | Category: Government

The U.S. Government has decided that regulators will apply an additional test to banks to determine which financial institutions will get additional capital from the government, and the form of that capital injection.  If the bank doesn’t meet the test created by the U.S. Treasury Department and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, then the bank may [...]



Foreclosure Discussion, Delayed

Feb 11th, 2009 | By Rob | Category: housing

Loyal readers may have noticed that I haven’t yet done my review of government and lender mortgage modification programs.  It’s not that I haven’t been thinking of issues related to foreclosures.  It’s simply that I’ve been too busy to sit down and put the work into the post that the topic deserves.  I hope to [...]