Badges used to be pinned on an attendee's shirt, he recalls, and industry experts debatedendlessly about whether the badge should be attached on the right or the left, thus easily viewed when shaking someone's hand.
The success of the bailouts from an execution and profitability standpoint will be debatedendlessly, but from the standpoint of keeping the financial system intact it is difficult to argue with Geithner: the bailouts should never have been necessary, but when they became essential they had the desired effect.
Straightforward costs of jobs lost to overly burdensome policies and opportunity cost of money misallocated to subsidize uncompetitive energy sources are well known, exhaustingly documented, and endlesslydebated.