Wonk us

Tim Geithner is the right man to lead the US Treasury. The famously wonkish New York Federal Reserve boss is pragmatic, understands markets and has repeatedly brought financial rivals together to forge solutions to otherwise intractable-looking problems. Moreover, because he has not been afraid to inflict pain on Wall Street he also commands respect from its ranks – and from legislators and bureaucrats. Unlike Treasury boss Hank Paulson and others once under consideration, like Merrill Lynch ch...