Ten of the biggest U.S. banks are ready to pay back $68 billion of the $200 billion the government pumped into financial companies to keep them solvent, starting last year under President Bush, says U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

Ten of the biggest U.S. banks are ready to pay back $68 billion of the $200 billion the government pumped into financial companies to keep them solvent, starting last year under President Bush, says U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.