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Tim Geithner: “What we are going to do is, as a condition for assistance, ask the banks to give us a concrete plan for how they are…”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
What we are going to do is, as a condition for assistance, ask the banks to give us a concrete plan for how they are going to use that assistance.
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Tim Geithner
New York

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Geithner outlines conditions for banks receiving financial assistance.

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