Thank you for your leadership on this and so many other issues involved in banking and other challenges facing the count...
We need better data. We need better analysis.
If we don't achieve it in the next several months, the bubbles that might be out there percolating... will once again ca...
if you do not have an authoritative institution supported by data doing that, then the problem I think you will have is ...
I don't sense there is a mutually exclusive sort of agenda here.
I want to thank you all for excellent testimony, thought provoking, and also for your advancing this issue.
I just wanted to make sure that there was no doubt in anybody's mind here that climate change is happening, and it is ha...
It is important in the Senate for issues to have champions.
So, we want to get it right on both sides. You do not want false alarms.
So, your best recommendation at this point is to expand the scope of the regulatory process so that it is by chemical ca...
Senator Lautenberg has for a long time been a very significant champion on these health issues.
the 'too big to fail' is a form of implicit subsidy from the taxpayer, which lowers the cost of funding for these deriva...
I do not think many people at all have been held accountable for what is going on.
First, we can't assume regulatory capacity adequate to the complexity of the financial markets.
I believe that the nature, the human makeup of an institution is extremely important.
the taxpayer had to step in because there wasn't enough capital in the private sector to cover the risks
My honest belief, having experienced it and having lived with it for years, is that the system would be stronger if we c...
the entire structure a 'doom loop' because it is a repeated cycle of boom, bust, bailout.