Tim Geithner's Gamble

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LOS ANGELES -- In a recent interview, United States Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner laid out his view of the nature of world economic growth and the role of the US financial sector. It is a deeply disturbing vision, one that amounts to a huge, uninformed gamble with the future of the American economy -- and that suggests that Geithner remains the senior public official worldwide who is most in thrall to the self-serving ideology of big banks.

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