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It was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke who originally suggested that Paulson go to Congress. Bernanke worried that there wasn't enough accountability in the two of them deciding on their own authority how to deploy billions of dollars in bailouts.
President-elect Barack Obama's choices for leadership on the economy are just as bad. Tim Geithner has worked hand in hand with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and he has championed Ben Bernanke's failed leadership of the Federal Reserve. Larry Summers claims credit for leading the ef...
When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that he wanted to extend $60 billion of the $700 billion rescue package to non-bank credit card and auto loan firms, this page called it "an irredeemably bad idea." We urged Congress to stop this idea before it went any further.