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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Geithner's Speech

By Marc Ambinder
Feb 10 2009, 7:08 AM ET Comment

Some highlights from the speech that Sec.Tim Geithner plans to deliver later today:

I want to be candid:  this comprehensive strategy will cost money, involve risk, and take time. We will have to adapt it as conditions change.  We will have to try things we've never tried before.  We will make mistakes.  We will go through periods in which things get worse and progress is uneven or interrupted.

In our financial system, 40 percent of consumer lending has historically been available because people buy loans, put them together and sell them.  Because this vital source of lending has frozen up, no plan will be successful unless it helps restart securitization markets for sound loans made to consumers and businesses - large and small.


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