Timothy Geithner Says Some Banks to Need ‘Large Amounts’ of Assistance

Posted by Kendall Harmon

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said some financial institutions will need substantial government aid, while warning against any attempt to tax investors who join a federal program to buy tainted assets from banks.

“Some banks are going to need some large amounts of assistance,” Geithner said today on the ABC News program “This Week.” The terms of a $500 billion public-private program to aid banks “cannot change” for investors or they’ll lose confidence in the plan, he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

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Filed under: * Economics, PoliticsEconomyThe 2009 Obama Administration Bank Bailout PlanThe Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007--The U.S. GovernmentTreasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

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