The issue figured prominently when US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew visited Beijing a few days later.
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The released Fed documents from 2007 also suggest current US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner underestimated the crisis.
Yesterday the US Treasury Secretary said it was "unfair to see Germany as the sole source of the problem".
But Larry Summers, Harvard professor and once US treasury secretary, had his doubts.
The US treasury secretary was accompanied not only by Mr Bernanke but also by six members of President Bush's cabinet.
His comments came in talks with Jack Lew, who is in Beijing on his first overseas trip as US Treasury Secretary.
The US Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, struck a similar tone, in a televised interview for a US political magazine on Thursday morning.
It could well be heading into the kind of downward spiral that the US Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, warned about in Davos.
It even prompted the US Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, to urge Europe to speak less and, when it does, with one voice.
However, the currency soon began to slide again, after ambivalent comments from US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers about his government's strong dollar policy.
The message that there has to be bold, dramatic action will be delivered in person by none other than US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
"Gone are the days when a homebuyer only went to the corner bank to take out a mortgage, " says US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
But if so, I suspect that has more to do with the US Treasury Secretary's comments on Wednesday than anything said on that call.
No-one in Washington will be surprised by the news that President Obama has nominated Jack Lew to replace Tim Geithner as US Treasury Secretary.
That more moderate tone was reiterated by US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who spoke to reporters from Treasury headquarters in Washington on Thursday afternoon.
Former US Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson has announced that he intends to write a book demystifying doing business with the Chinese.
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On October 13, 2008, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson summoned the CEOs of the nine largest US banks and forced them to sell shares to the government.
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The expected next US Treasury Secretary has urged the country's politicians not to allow automatic spending cuts to come into effect at the end of the month.
Back then, the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, was also very worried about moral hazard, and the need to send a message that failing institutions would not always be bailed out.
Late on Friday, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the US planned to invest directly in banks for the first since the 1930s, following a similar UK programme of partial bank nationalisation.
The measures were "another strong step in the international effort to dramatically increase the pressure on Iran", US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement.
The US blamed Europe for the fragile demand with Jack Lew, US Treasury secretary, saying that "stronger demand in Europe is critical to global growth" in his submission to the IMF's governing body.
Six years later, on October 14, 2011, when he was serving as US Treasury Secretary, Geithner greeted the prosecution of several hedge fund managers for various trading infractions in a much more confrontation tone.
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The US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, who appeared with Mrs Clinton at the news conference, warned that international banks should be wary of doing any business with Iran that might aid its nuclear programme.
Lawsuits against the US Treasury Secretary ensued immediately.
All along, the US Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, has been saying the eurozone had to clean up its own mess - and reminding them that the continent had ample resources, as a group, to do it.
Just before the New Year, the US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner indicated that the federal government would run up against the debt ceiling - a legal cap on its total borrowing set by Congress - by the end of February.
To address these concerns, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner visited China at the end of May to give assurance over the safety of dollar assets, and met with his Russian counterpart over the weekend at the sidelines of the G8 finance ministers meeting.
First Row (L-R): Finance Minister of Germany Jorg Asmussen, Finance Minister of Italy Giulio Tremonti, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, French Finance Minister Christine Lagard, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and Luxembourg Prime Minister and chairman of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker.
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