the fact of the matter is that our company, which is a large computer user, had discarded the idea of trying to keep the...
The consolidation took place in such a way that entities became so big that they are too big to fail.
Isn't it equally important to recognize that maybe the earliest and most fundamental failure that led to our current cri...
Has not worked.
It seems to me that when we get to, whether it be in AIG or certain banking institutions that have been defined, that th...
If it is too expensive to internalize those risks, then that means that we need smaller institutions.
Isn't that something that we should be concerned about as we look forward in terms of these set of circumstances.
Isn't it--when an entity is too big to fail, haven't we failed already.
But up until now, to be honest, wasn't the drive to basically say, leave the marketplace to act on its own, and if conso...
Thank you. I have one last question and one follow up and then we'll, unless a member appears we'll close the hearing.
the Federal Reserve, you know, is at the forefront of what needed to be done because they had the ability to set the sta...
I think you were ahead of the curve when others were not and really applaud you for that.
The five largest U.S. banks in 2005 were all national banks and too big to fail.
I look forward, Mr. Chairman, to working with you to try to make this happen, because these community banks are the ones...
It is hard to make the case that we had an adequate job of oversight given those results.
Well, I will submit the question for the record because the Chairman has been very generous with my time, but one of the...
So when is it that you support, if you support, going ahead and including giving DOE the authority to regulate what is a...
I want to caution both departments that if they don't reach an agreement as they've pledged to that some of us, certainl...
