A Report Card for Geithner's First Year

WASHINGTON (TheStreet) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was put into office with three essential goals: Repair banks, fix housing, and stimulate private investment.

While Geithner has come under sharp criticism recently for his role in the American International Group(AIG) counterparty scandal, it's worth taking a look at what he's achieved in a remarkably short period of time.

Geithner unveiled a wide-ranging financial-reform proposal just 15 days after being sworn into office on Jan. 26, 2009. He promised to "restart the flow of credit, clean up and strengthen our banks, and provide critical aid for homeowners and for small businesses" and "jumpstart job creation and private investment."

These were no light tasks for a financial system that recently stood at the brink of collapse, and an economy that was in the midst of a deep recession. The programs that Geithner has used to achieve his goals are an alphabet soup of taxpayer support:

• TARP , the $700 billion bank-bailout program
• HAMP, which is using $275 billion in incentives to prod banks into easing mortgage terms
• PPIP, the initiative to clean up toxic assets, whose initial price tag was up to $1 trillion, but ended up whittled down to just $30 billion
• And a series of initiatives to help small businesses, which culminated on Tuesday with a $30 billion Small Business Lending Fund, whose acronym is TBD.

Here's a look at how these initiatives have fared during Geithner's first year in office: