TARP has also failed to check the culture of excessive risktaking that brought on this crisis.
What's our model, here? Should we all just go to Las Vegas and bet it all on black-22?
So, if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that the advantage to breaking up the big banks is, we end up with more banks that can...
The problems are unmistakable. Uncertainty persists about the stability of our financial institutions.
TARP was not designed merely to rescue large banks; the broader, long-term goals were aimed at strengthening the overall economy.
It's a particularly good moment for us to be thinking about some of the issues in front of this committee.
The global economy has changed dramatically, quickly, and profoundly.
We're not out of the woods yet, but it's not too soon to start rebuilding and rethinking our international financial institutions.
I do think that -- we all know that there is this populous surge in the country that shows up in tea parties and elsewhere. She's going to b...
Yes, they did, Anderson. And it was -- it's been a very difficult choice for Nancy Pelosi to allow this.
It -- it -- this is very complex, Anderson. It's hard to know.
Yes, they did, Anderson. And it was it -- it's been a very difficult choice for Nancy Pelosi to allow this.
this process has become long and very messy.
the president is taking a lot of time to being very deliberate, try to figure out how to get in and very importantly how to get out of Afgha...
it's startling news, in many ways, Anderson.
we never imagined it would be General McChrystal vs. General Eikenberry.
That is not accurate.
I joined in the effort on the floor when we did the Byrd-Hagel Amendment, because we felt we had to have everybody under the tent.