Other than organizing bailouts Geithner’s resume is quite thin compared to that of others who have held the office he has been nominated to. As liberal columnist Robert Kuttner noted recently in The American Prospect, Geithner “has neither a doctorate in economics nor an M.B.A.” He has never been a corporate leader nor been a professor with a trail of published economic papers. Instead, Geithner’s career has been almost entirely in the bowels of the bureaucracy. He started at the Treasury Department in 1988 as a career civil servant before being appointed under-secretary of the Treasury for international affairs in 1999.