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Tim Geithner: Again, our overall objective, and this has to be our shared objective, is to have the private markets, banks and…

On the recordMarch 14, 2011
Again, our overall objective, and this has to be our shared objective, is to have the private markets, banks and investors, bear more of the risk in housing finance, not less of the risk.
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Tim Geithner
New York

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Tim Geithner stresses the need for private markets to assume more risk in housing finance.

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