The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability was the head of the

Office of Financial Stability The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability was the head of the Office of Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury. The position was created on October 3, 2008 by the Emergency Economic Stabilization ...

in the

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. The position was created on October 3, 2008 by the

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, often called the "bank bailout of 2008", was proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, passed by the 110th United States Congress, and signed into law by President George W. Bush. It became ...

, the act that created the Office of Financial Stability to administer the

Troubled Asset Relief Program The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is a program of the United States government to purchase toxic assets and equity from financial institutions to strengthen its financial sector that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President ...

. By law, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability is appointed by the

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with the

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of the

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.Pub.L. 110-343 §101(a)(3)(A)
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is authorized to appoint an Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability. The position was abolished after Timothy Massad.

List of Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury for Financial Stability

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Henry Paulson Henry Merritt Paulson Jr. (born March 28, 1946) is an American banker and financier who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009. Prior to his role in the Department of the Treasury, Paulson was the Chairman a ...

Timothy Geithner Timothy Franz Geithner (; born August 18, 1961) is a former American central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank ...

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Herbert M. Allison Herbert Monroe Allison, Jr. (August 2, 1943 – July 14, 2013) was an American businessman who oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability from 2009 to 2010. His previous positio ...

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References

Troubled Asset Relief Program

List of Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury for Financial Stability

See also

References