Fall Out between the Government and the Nation’s Biggest Banks

Fall Out between the Government and the Nation’s Biggest Banks

The nation’s biggest banking institutions might have been rescued by the turmoil of their own making, but they aren’t thanking the government for it. While Tim Geithner and Hank Paulson, who at the time were New York Federal Reserve president and Treasury secretary respectively, were trying to iron out the details of the $700 billion rescue plan, CEOs of the banking companies were kept in the dark about their plans.

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