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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Tim Geithner and the Princess Bride


Timothy Geithner April 2011: “Is there a risk that the United States could lose its AAA credit rating? Yes or no?”

Geithner: "No risk of that"

August 5, 2011 - Standard & Poor's announced Friday night that it has downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time, dealing a symbolic blow to the world’s economic superpower in what was a sharply worded critique of the American political system.

 Geithner April 2012:  “If we don't deal with these debt problems we are going to be Greece in two years”?

 Geithner: "No risk of that"

Wow! Don't you feel better now?

Geithner sort of reminds me of this guy: