Chris Dodd: “We are going to want to have as many conversations as we can with you as we move forward on how to develop these ideas.”

The truth is that the catastrophe was years in the making caused by regulatory negligence and Wall Street gambling.

In fact, it was the uncertainty inherent in a nontransparent and reckless financial system that made Dodd-Frank necessary in the first place.

It's far more complicated than a common language.

Maybe we ought to be spending a little more time looking at the relationships at that level.