Tim Geithner: “You have a financial system that is more stable. Credit is more available. People can borrow at much lower cost.”

When Timothy Geithner says today that he's willing to go over the cliff, he's saying it because, yes, it's posturing. But he's also saying it because he means it.

If the U.S. Government were at this time... to significantly reduce the assistance it provides students going to college, that would be a bad thing for the country.

Absolutely. Yes, again, we see there's no prospect to an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top 2 percent of the wealthiest Americans.

You cannot govern a country if you commit never to raise taxes on anybody, because things change, wars happen, crises happen.