April 3, 2025· 41 min

Tim Geithner on How to Fight the Next Financial Crisis

Tim Geithner

Orality

Model

66%

Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,401 words)

M:29%

HostTracy Alloway(1,592 words)

M:29%

GuestTim Geithner(4,230 words)

M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic36%

literally, completely, obviously

Engagement68%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, so, now

Repetition100%

like (77x), system (66x), people (56x)

Parallelism99%

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Sound Patterns56%

47 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases5%

you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%

could, might, quite

Passive Voice3%

is speed, is when, is when

Abstract Nouns23%

investment, business, recommendation

Subordination7%

because, though, since

Sentence Length44%

Avg: 15.9 words/sentence

Word Complexity48%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style32%

574 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style82%

apply, literally, completely

Description

The 2008 financial crisis is fading into history, but the risks of something big happening again remain. In this episode, we speak with Tim Geithner, the former US Treasury secretary and head of the New York Fed during the tumultuous collapse of Lehman Brothers. The conversation coincides with the launch of Yale's New Bagehot Project, which is aimed at guiding the next generation of financial crisis-fighters (Geithner is Chair of the program on financial stability at the Yale University School of Management). We talk about what's most important when it comes to putting out financial fires, and what could have been done differently during 2008. And of course, we also talk current risks in the financial system. Read more: US Debt Load Tops Fed’s Survey of Financial Stability Risks Fiscal Debt Binge Is World’s Biggest Stability Threat, BIS Says Subprime Collapse to Global Financial Meltdown: Timeline Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox each week, plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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