Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has been a lightning rod for the Obama administration even longer than he's formally held his position. This week, the storm clouds returned.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended on Thursday the costly bailout of AIG and urged swift regulatory reform to safeguard the economy from the failure of big financial firms.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A call issued by a Republican congressman for U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to resign is merely scapegoating, a Democratic senator said Sunday.

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday the government's $700 billion bailout program will end...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress Thursday that moving quickly to overhaul badly flawed U.S. financial rules is essential for the health of the economy.

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing Congress to move quickly in overhauling badly flawed U.S. financial rules, which he says is essential for the health of the economy.

Adding to lawmaker criticism of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's performance is a new survey released on Friday showing 42 percent of Americans say he has done a "poor job" handling the credit crisis and federal bailout programs.

Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans say Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has done a poor job handling the credit crisis and federal bailout programs, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, as part of a grilling on Capitol Hill yesterday, was asked by a Republican lawmaker to resign. It is a call he is likely to hear again and again as next year’s election campaign heats up.

It’s amazing to go back and read what people were saying about Timothy Geithner in the spring. Many people said he looked terrified as the Treasury secretary, like Bambi in the headlights. The New Republic ran an essay called “The Geithner Disaster.” Portfolio magazine ran a brutal, zeitgeist-capturing profile that concluded by comparing Geithner to Robert Redford’s hollow-man character in “The ...