WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama named his economic team Monday (Tuesday Malaysian time), tapping New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as treasury secretary to deal with what he said was as a crisis of historic proportions.
Obama called on the next Congress to act quickly in passing a costly stimulus package to create jobs to bolster the wider economy in addition to the hundreds of billions of dollars the Bush administration has committed to rescue financial markets.
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