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Former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was as close as it gets to the epicenter of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis.

Together with Treasury chief Hank Paulson and Fed boss Ben Bernanke, he presided over the crisis at the Bush administration, which let the conflagration get out of control. He then led the Obama administration's response.

As such, Geithner allowed the country's big banks to become wards of the state (which they are to this day) that can suck up and spit out taxpayer money as they see fit. Banks can make massive bets and, if they lose, no problem - they're financed by the taxpayers....