I think we all have an interest in maintaining the independence of the standard setters.
All you need is one significant outlier to throw off the--to toss up the apple cart.
Regulation must strike a delicate balance--providing a sense of safety and security for investors, without snuffing out ...
I think there is a willingness and an understanding that we have to move.
I am not so worried--I mean, although the details, look how long it took to get some agreement on Basel and the capital ...
However, new factors, including technology, globalization, and industry consolidation and evolution have left our regula...
I agree, it is a unique opportunity.
If we have got good regulation, and good is not synonymous with a lot of regulation necessarily, but if we have intellig...
Don't you think the Fed is pretty well removed from political pressures?
How in this international financial world, with a national system of regulation, don't you always flee--doesn't money al...
Well, to clarify, my view would be to go back to the investor-paid initially.
Eight years of the Bush Administration's one-sided, laissez-faire, deregulatory ideology have helped cripple our financi...
Exactly. Yes, and it worked.
Even former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, once an ardent defender of deregulation and the free market, recent...
That is a staggering increase. Can you drill down into that number and give us a sense of why, how, and what direction a...
So what is happening?
Is it the higher-tech nature of the equipment and, therefore, the less predictability?
This discussion is not only appropriate but overdue.