Tim Geithner: “if you are providing guarantees, you need to charge for them. They need to be risk based, and they need to be fair in…”

The world still views the United States and the American political system as up to the challenge of delivering reforms that make our economy stronger and our fiscal position more sustainable.

The TARP bank investments have already produced a profit for the taxpayer of over $19.5 billion.

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.