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Demanding a Resolution

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Treasury wants more takeover power. Congress should make it happen.

By Chadwick Matlin of The Big Money

Tim Geithner is getting the hang of this Washington thing. A day after inflaming and subduing critics with a bailout plan that Wall Street (at least temporarily) loved, Geithner turned to a classic form of D.C. distraction on Tuesday: wave a shiny new piece of legislation in front of Congress. Faced with the uncomfortable task of explaining how much (or little) he knew about the AIG bonus scandal, Geithner diverted attention by telling Congress he needed its help. He wants it to authorize more power for the Treasury Department so that it can seize financial institutions that aren’t banks. Congress would be wise to make it happen—after they sort through a few snags.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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