Michael S. Barr: “The Congress needs to increase the debt ceiling. There are no other options around that.”

Shouldn't this be a more transparent public Board meeting and a deliberative process that includes all members of the Board?

We need to not only arrest individuals such as those in Woodford County who traffic this potent deadly drug, but also find and eliminate the source of production and financing.

It was our judgment collectively on the Federal Reserve Board, and an unanimous decision of the FDIC and the Treasury Secretary, that we needed to do that to protect contagion from infecting healthy banks in the system.

I have said repeatedly that banks, according to our rules, are well-capitalized today. Our banking system is sound and resilient.