The President's dilemma is that he said, you know, Tony Hayward, from BP, if he worked for him, he would have been fired a long time ago for...
It is a firing offense. The question is who can prosecute this war well? And General McChrystal at this point is the man who is in the posit...
I was surprised by your answer to Dr. Troske about the metric for success on the home mortgage foreclosure program.
You set aside $50 billion and what do you have to show for it?
Is that a successful program?
I have been calling for this for a while--is the creation of a homeowners advocate within the Treasury.
Do you have any concerns about what this means? Now we are doing commercial real estate. Now we are moving on to second mortgages?
I am sorry, Mr. Secretary. Just so we are all clear on this, the numbers about concentrations of commercial real estate come from the banks'...
The financial problems of these banks are straining their ability to lend to small businesses that might otherwise be driving the economic r...
I think your point about the accomplishments of TARP are quite significant and your emphasis on the importance of a stable, functional finan...
I have a feeling I am going to hear the same answer, but let me just try it again with second liens.
What I am hearing you say is, no reason to change anything. We will stay steady on the same course.
It seems clear that these efforts have had an important impact: markets have calmed greatly since the turbulent fall of 2008.
We must also evaluate whether Treasury has diligently measured the impact of its efforts, using credible metrics to measure the success or t...
What is the metric for success?
This hearing of the Congressional Oversight Panel is called to order.
How can you be confident about the stability of these financial institutions without re-running the stress tests?
You designed it around servicers who--I wrote it down when you said it. Servicers have done a terrible job.
