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Timothy Geithner Quotes

born 1961 United States

Timothy Franz Geithner (born August 18, 1961) is a former American central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration.

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We believe in a strong dollar … Chinese financial assets are very safe.

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.

Hyperinflation is not going to happen in this country, will never happen... The Fed putting so much money into the system is not going to create the risk of hyperinflation in the future. We have a strong independent Federal Reserve with a very strong mandate from the Congress, and they will do what's necessary to keep inflation low and stable over time.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Timothy Geithner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.