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Tim Geithner: “It's very important to future economic growth. There is no alternative to doing that.”

On the recordApril 4, 2011
It's very important to future economic growth. There is no alternative to doing that.
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Tim Geithner
New York

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Geithner stresses the necessity of bipartisan reforms for economic growth.

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