[quote=briansd1]It’s all relative. Compare Geithner to Paulson, Rubin, Baker or Regan. The reference to Andrew Mellon is apt.

Geithner was never a banker. He’s been a policy maker most of his career.

Given the magnitude of the financial crisis, aren’t you pleasantly surprised at how the financial team was able to redress the world economy?

We now have renewed growth and stability in asset prices and employment. Isn’t that something to rejoice about?

Perhaps the corruption that you guys are perceiving is not the person but the system that we have?

flu, did you ever hear Geithner speak Mandarin?[/quote]

Can we honestly claim that he was never a banker when he was president of the New York Fed, not to mention his position at the IMF? Some would argue he was a banker’s banker…much more than just a “banker.”

And while he might have been concerned about “asset price stability” as prices fell, where was his advocacy for “asset price stability” when prices were skyrocketing?