Stress test is the story of tim geithners education in financial crises as president of the federal reserve bank of new york and then as president barack obamas secretary of the treasury timothy f geithner helped the united states navigate the worst financial crisis since the great depression from boom to bust to rescue to recovery . Stress test is also a valuable guide to how governments can better manage financial crises because this one wont be the last stress test reveals a side of secretary geithner the public has never seen starting with his childhood as an american abroad he recounts his early days as a young treasury official helping to fight the international financial crises of the 1990s then describes what he saw what he did and what he missed at the new york fed before the wall street boom went bust . Stress test reflections on financial crises takes us inside the room explaining in accessible and forthright terms the hard choices and politically unpalatable decisions that geithner and others in the obama administration made during the crisis and recovery he discusses the most controversial moments of his tenures at the federal reserve bank of new york and at the treasury including the harrowing weekend lehman brothers went bankrupt the searing crucible of the aig bonuses controversy . Stress test is also a valuable guide to how governments can better manage financial crises because this one wont be the last stress test reveals a side of secretary geithner the public has never seen starting with his childhood as an american abroad he recounts his early days as a young treasury official helping to fight the international financial crises of the 1990s then describes what he saw what he did and what he missed at the new york fed before the wall street boom went bust . Stress test reflections on financial crises feb 27 2020 0732 am comments off on stress test reflections on financial crises description previously led the operations of the federal reserve bank of new york and later on leading the treasury department during obamas presidency timothy f geithner is a focal person that salvaged the united states from sinking and helped restore