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"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.
Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF "is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions."
"Geithner still didn't correct the same type of error for some years, even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years."
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Distorting Geithner's comments about the dollar:
A Minnesota congresswoman suggests incorrectly that the treasury secretary wants to dump the dollar.
Your guide to the Geithner tax controversy :
Treasury nominee Timothy Geithner's tax errors will be front and center at his confirmation hearings. We separate the facts from the fiction.
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