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Asked by Rose about the Barofsky book and the suggestion that he was too close to the banks as a result of his time heading the New York Federal Reserve, Geithner pushed back.
“You know, I’m deeply offended by that,” Geithner said. “I find that deeply offensive. You know, it’s the result of a urban myth. … A lot of people thought and wrote in publications of record that I spent my life at Goldman Sachs rather than as a public servant, which is what I’d done with my life. A lot of people thought the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was a bank — a private bank — rather than the fire station of the financial system.”