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Tim Geithner: “Assistance comes with conditions. It is not a right. It is a privilege.”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
Assistance comes with conditions. It is not a right. It is a privilege.
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Tim Geithner
New York

Editor's note · Context

Geithner emphasized that financial assistance is conditional.

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